This Monday an Executive Committee of Deportivo Cali is being held where important decisions are being made about the future of the sugar cast, more precisely about the continuity of Mayer Candelo, at the head of the professional team, and Luis Fernando Mena, in his position as president.
Before the meeting, Mena himself offered a press conference with the media, in which he clarified various aspects that have occurred and been rumored in recent days.
He initially apologized for the act he did seconds after finishing the match against Atlético Bucaramanga and then said that “last night my wife and my friends were there when they started throwing things at me, I put up with it and put up with it until they treated my wife badly, it came out and I started responding for a minute.”
Then he said that they have threatened him: “I have received a number of calls telling me ‘Mayer has to go now or he will see’, and so on of all kinds. There are people who call me and call me through computers and I answered, they tell me ‘now that you leave you’re dead’. They have also sent me copies of the messages telling me that I have to remove Mayer and that he resign, if that is the solution, my position is in order.
He said that he spoke with Jaime De La Pava about the technical direction, but that he repented with Mayer while still in the position and then backed him up: “I have supported Mayer Candelo, because I think that Cali needs to get back on track and prepare our boys from now, for what comes next year”.
He clarified that he will support Mayer at the EC meeting but the decision will be made by all: “in the committee I am going to delay, I am going to put it on, the decision will be made and my vote will be that it continues”.
He spoke about the continuity of Teo and about whether he met with De La Pava: “here I am not here to talk about what is going to be removed or is going to continue, the decision is respectable about whether Teo continues or leaves, it is his decision, no our. I did meet with Jaime.”
Regarding the economic situation, he said that “Deportivo does not have the money to bring figures, it is the academy that is going to have to show its face and will be in charge of getting us out of this situation. The debt exceeds 91 billion pesos.
At the end he mentioned the relationship with the board “the internal Committee is fine, there is harmony, unity and it is false that it is fragmented. After it I will make my decision to continue or not.
Juan Andres Arias Arias
Correspondent Futbolred
Cali
And Twitter: @AriasJuan_15
