16 years have passed and the Once Caldas still not pay the technician Louis Fernando Montoya. Club and coach reconciled labor on three points: pay for the education of José Fernando, his sonmake him a contract for two years as an advisor and schedule a box office game for the Antioquia coach.
The agreement was signed by the club’s directors when it was a non-profit corporation, responsibility that has been transferred over time to the shareholder with the new public limited company. The country spoke this Wednesday with the ‘teacher’ Montoya.
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- How do you see Once Caldas?
I don’t know what happens with the players, I don’t know if they don’t prepare well, I don’t know if they train well or don’t take good care of themselves. It is a team that shows many ups and downs. You have to change the goals. If the objectives are to sell players, think about that, but the Eleven has a name at the international level and that name cannot be changed.
- The team has been whistled for its football, even winning, as happened with Envigado, what do you think?
It is one thing to play a Colombian tournament, another a Copa Libertadores and another a World Cup. The pressures are not the same.
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- Is the technician wrong when he says that he is from a different generation than those who ask him for a creative?
I am nobody to talk about the technicals, but I would like them to be careful to give statements.
- What is Once Caldas’s debt to you?
this is very mean. In the last contact we had, They told us that this debt could be collected by the children of my son’s children and that says there is nothing to talk about. I am calm because I responded to Once Caldas, the department and the city. Current managers have lacked height.
- To put it more crudely, are you going to die and not get paid?
Not so much that I die but who knows if my son’s children will receive that.
- Did you see the Colombian National Team?
I saw both games. I want football, football hurts me and it hurts me how we didn’t qualify for the World Cup. I would like an explanation to be given to the country about the elimination because, with the conditions that our players have, it was to have gone. And I think something happened there and it should be clarified. It would be good to clarify it before starting again. There are still players there and they are indebted to the country.
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- Do you think something happened?
What happened, why didn’t they deliver… the blame cannot be placed on two good technicians like Reinaldo Rueda and Carlos Queiroz. There is something more and background, and to start a new process it should be clarified to the public opinion.
I continue with my therapies, normal, and the novelty today is that I am studying. I don’t stay still.
We are doing well, all this is due to the continuity that I have had with the medical staff and having a great doctor like Dr. Diego Lalinde at my side, who always lives pending me, has given me stability.
- Why is he wearing permanent oxygen today?
The oxygen thing is to avoid saturations, but when I want to leave it I do it. It’s more like prevention. And after the pandemic, I think you have to be very careful.
- And what is he studying?
I am a sports technologist, with a specialization in soccer from the Grancolombiano Polytechnic and now I am doing a degree in Physical Education with Uniminuto. I’m very happy. The teachers are of great human quality.
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- 2005-2006: German Cardona Gutierrez
- 2006-2007: Javier German Mejia
- 2008-2009: Fernando Mejia Jaramillo
- 2010-2011: Juan Hernando Ramos
- 2005, 2011 and 2012: Jose Manuel Lopez
- 2012-2013: Oscar David Gómez
- 2013: Carlos Garcia
- 2014-2015: Rafael Castaneda
- 2016-2017 and 2018-2022: Tulio Mario Castrillon
An agreement was signed on August 17, 2006. The document bears the signatures of Luis Fernando Henao (labor inspector), Paula Sigrid Delgado (lawyer for Once Caldas), Adriana Herrera (wife of ‘profe’ Montoya) and Luis Alfonso Sossa. (Luis Fernando’s psychologist). It has Montoya’s fingerprint on it.
There it is said that, although the club liquidated it on December 14, 2004, the technician asked to be paid for what he earned: $1,328,000 salary, and $13,672,000 for entertainment expenses, awards and bonuses.
For a similar case, the club lost a $700 million lawsuit with Jorge Agudeloplayer of the same era.
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Since there was reconciliation the club bought the insurance to guarantee university studies for José Fernando, his son; They signed a contract to provide services for $3,500,000 a month for two years and a soccer game, whose collection would be for the ‘teacher’ Montoya.
This Wednesday a response from the club was sought through the press office and there was no response.
