Disturbing suspicion. Justice investigates whether the serious injury of a Boca striker is linked to illegal betting

The Criminal, Misdemeanor and Misdemeanor Prosecutor’s Office No. 35, Specialized in Massive Events, headed by Celsa Ramírez, began an ex officio investigation to determine if the event that occurred on August 10 in the Copa Argentina match between Boca Juniors and Agriculturalwhen a violent play caused a serious injury to the Boca player Exequiel Zeballoswould be linked to the betting business.

This week the version began to circulate that the clandestine sports betting sites could have taken an expulsion before 10 minutes of the match between the Ribera team and Carlos Casares. The kick that the defender Milton Leyendeker hit “Changuito” from behind, in which case, it would have been the ideal means to achieve the winning expulsion.

“Prosecutor Ramírez investigates whether there were bets on the fact that there would be an Agropecuario player expelled before 10 minutes of the match played in the province of Salta. The violent action that ended in Zeballos’s injury – which will keep him inactive for months – occurred 6 minutes into the first half of the match” played on August 10, reported the City Public Prosecutor’s Office.

Given the versions in the news about the event, the prosecution intervened ex officio and requested various measures from the Judicial Investigation Corps of the City Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Federal Police to detect if there was an illegal act. It should be noted that such a type of betting is not legally provided for.

Starting this year, you can bet on local tournament matches in 14 provinces (including the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires). One of every two online sports bets made in the Capital and Greater Buenos Aires involves Argentine soccer. A gross turnover of between 50 and 60 million dollars is expected for this year, according to industry sources. By 2026, and with a much more mature market, the revenue projection climbs to US$ 155/160 millionwith a greater preponderance of sports, which today lose against the modalities installed years ago: poker or slot machines.

In football you can bet not only on the final result, but also on which club or which player will score the first goal, at what minute the first lateral/free kick/goal kick will be, how many corners will be taken, which player will receive the first warning or expulsionwhich team will score more goals and if there will be penalties, if there will be an even or odd number of goals, what will be the score at halftime, what will be the margin of victory (by one, two, three or more goals difference), if one team will win the match by tracing the result.

There are simple and combined bets (with more than one prediction, in different categories and even mixing different sports). A user, when creating the bet on the web, will be able to add all the variants that he wants and in the end the total will be thrown. Likewise, there is also the time of the bet. The “previous”, which are done before the start of the sporting event, and those that are “live”, that is, while it is taking place. The value of the “quota” that each bet has varies according to the probability that the event in question will materialize or not (not all bookmakers have the same behavior in terms of odds).

Leyendekerthe 24-year-old defender who injured Zeballos in Salta, he visited the Boca footballer at the San Isidro clinic where he underwent surgery and is recovering from surgery. “He received me very well, I thank him and I wish him the best,” said the defender, whose pass belongs to Newell’s and is on loan at Carlos Casares’ club, who plays in the First National.

Speaking to TyC Sports and ESPN, Leyendeker added: “The play? I came to tell him that, what I said everywhere, and he told me that he already knewthat I didn’t need any explanation and that they were things that could happen”, said the central defender.

Zeballos suffered an “injury to the distal tibiofibular syndesmosis with injury to the deltoid ligament and avulsion of the posterior malleolus of the right ankle”, which required the player to undergo immediate surgery. “Good post-surgical evolution. He is not infiltrated and must serve three weeks without support and three weeks with partial support (using crutches) to then complete the rehabilitation work, ”said the report signed by the doctor. George Batistawho operated on the soccer player xeneize, who this week ended his rest and began his postoperative period.

will be between 4 and 6 months off the pitchaccording to the latest medical report released by the Ribera club.