Juan roman riquelme He was in Spain, briefly passed through Argentina and went to Paraguay for the Copa Libertadores draw. Hugo Ibarra he led the team against Olimpo in Chaco, returned to Buenos Aires and conducted the first two training sessions of the week. This Tuesday afternoon, they were going to cross paths after several daysbut an unexpected setback changed the plans and at least in Ezeiza the faces will not be seen. And in the YPF?
Although the squad trained under the orders of El Negro in the morning, Román did not show up in the morning and they did expect him in the afternoon, when the team would carry out the second shift of the two scheduled for the day. “He did not appear, they were waiting for him,” they told Olé from Ezeiza about the vice president.
However, an accident in which a truck was crossed on the Richieri highway generated a partial cut and consequent chaos traffic (it was released around 3:00 p.m.), for which the coaching staff decided to cancel the second shift so that the players do not have to go and return to their homes with such a traffic jam.
Not only the players left the Ezeiza Training Center, but also the coaching staff, including Ibarra, so any meeting at the venue was left for another time or place. Of course, when the Football Council fired Miguel Angel Russo did it by phone and Sebastián Battaglia at a service station…
The dismissal in the YPF
“Because it was a busy day, because the staff worked on the property in the afternoon, because we have been working a lot since noon, making calls, agreeing, it is not easy to make a decision like thatyou have to be convinced, analyze several things,” Jorge Bermúdez would later justify about the dismissal at YPF.
And he followed her: “The return from training for the area where Sebastián lives was traumatic, there was a problem, I remember it clearly, in General Paz that day, a public order problem, a traffic problem, it took more than two hours to get to your residence. When we arrived we called him, he was tired, suffocated by traffic, we wanted to have a meeting point equidistant from us. Nothing else”.
