Caruso Lombardi declared for more than three hours for the Zoe Generation cause: what he said about his relationship with Cositorto

In the context of the cause Generation Zoe, Ricardo Caruso Lombardi was forced to travel to Villa María, Córdoba, to testify before Second Shift Prosecutor Juliana Companys. He entered through a rear door of the building and gave his testimony for three hours, in which he spoke of his relationship with Leonardo Cositortoleader of Zoe and soccer manager of Spanish Sportsa club in which the former coach of San Lorenzo and Racing was hired as manager. Next Monday it will be the turn of Diego Elijahholder of the Galician.

According to reports, Caruso’s statement, who currently also works as a television columnist, was permanently related to soccer and the interference of the head of Generación Zoe. The former midfielder broke away from Cositorto, with whom, in his words, he only shared “a couple of roasts.” He also admitted having gone to the offices of Crisologo Larralde, but that he never witnessed “anything unusual.” And he stressed that the link was strictly labor.

One of the items that had generated controversy was linked to the promotion that the coach-manager made of Generación Zoe in the interviews he gave in his role. Before the consultation, Caruso argued that, for example, he should wear the ZOE shirt as part of the initialed agreement. In March, at the height of the investigation into alleged “repeated fraud and illicit association,” the Argenzuela program, for Radio 10had found a contract that the renowned DT had signed.

The bond was for one year, from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022, with a salary of five million pesos to be paid every three months and a bonus in case the club achieved promotion of 100 thousand dollars. Among the tasks that Tano had to carry out were the hiring of soccer players and the assembly of the team, the preparation of the campus through clinics and advertising the company, among other tasks. However, the controversy was generated by a specific clause involving President Elías, Caruso Lombardi and Cositorto. In this contract, the economic rights of the players of the first division squad are transferred “in favor of Generación Zoe SA in 40% and sports director Ricardo Caruso Lombardi in 20%”, as can be seen in the documents.

At that moment, the Tano recognized the existence of said bond, but with a caveat. He clarified that there are two contracts: the first, which is the one he fulfilled due to his daily work, and another that has this controversial percentage clause. However, in Tano he revealed that it was “removed” by order of his lawyer, since “it was poorly written” and “that could not be done.” And he stated that after the fall of Generación Zoe he had put himself on the shoulder of the day-to-day activities of the Spanish campus so as not to leave the soccer players and employees without support.

“Caruso Lombardi is expensive for me, but a little television ad on TyC Sports you get 100, 200 thousand pesos”, Cositorto prayed in one of the videos that went viral after his fall. Zoe’s first approach to football was as a sponsor of Cañuelas Fútbol Clubwith an agreement that included payment of 300,000 pesos per month.

Then Cositorto founded the Sporty Zoe, whose goal was to enter the AFA tournaments and for that he had to start competing in the regional ones, and in the meantime he put together a parallel structure under the umbrella of Deportivo Español. “With my coaching staff, he promoted the footballers and then he transferred them to other leagues, to Andorra, to Thailand, to Colombia. That in football is very common: here I paid in pesos and transferred in euros or dollars. For me, his business was round, ”Caruso declared in February, dialogue with Infobae.

In Córdoba he armed the armed the Zoe Athletic Club, in Villa María, the town where the technical director went to testify. Also became the main sponsor of Chacarita, a club with which it agreed to put its logo on the front of the shirt in exchange for 25.2 million pesos payable in four installments of 6.3 million.

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