Sebastián Villa: Boca communicated the decision on the player after the conviction

Boca Juniors announced, through a statement, that Sebastián Villa will not play for the club after the sentence for gender violence against her ex-partner, which was released this Friday.

“Will not participate in the calls for competitions that the Club’s first professional men’s soccer team must face until the final judicial ruling is issued and without prejudice to the measures that are consequently adopted, which will be communicated in a timely manner if necessary, “he said.

“Timely, the club made public its position to submit the matter to the Justice in protection of the corresponding constitutional guarantees and awaiting the issuance of the respective pronouncements,” added the institution.

On a strictly professional level, the ruling put Boca before the obligation to make a decision on the 27-year-old striker, who arrived at the club in mid-2018. Until now, and throughout the entire process (this is the first of the two legal cases that Villa faces that receives a sentence), the club had chosen a middle path: allowed Villa to continue forming part of his squad because justice had not failed. From this noon, the panorama was different.

As published by LA NACION, beyond the fact that Juan roman riquelmesecond vice president and who is in charge of the Boca Football Council always defended him as a footballer, this ruling placed the institution on another plane: it had to go from discomfort and half measures to facts. Jorge Amealpresident of the club, was not blunt on the matter the times he expressed himself on the subject.

Villa He arrived in Boca in mid-2018, just after becoming champion in Colombia with his first club, Deportes Tolima. His first years at Xeneize were extremely fruitful, and he won the Super Cup in 2019 and the Professional League in 2020, after beating River in the table on the last date. But the relationship with the fan began a gradual deterioration since, in April 2020, his former partner Daniela Cortés shared images of the violence that the striker exercised with her, which led to his being temporarily suspended by the club.

However, over time, the Colombian rejoined the squad once activity returned after the stoppage due to the pandemic, and despite the fact that the complaint was formalized and advanced until today’s conviction, Villa continued playing under the orders of Miguel Ángel Russo, Sebastián Battaglia, Hugo Ibarra and Jorge Almirón. In total he said present in 117 matches with the blue and gold jerseyhe contributed with 21 goals and won another Professional League, another Super Cup and also a League Cup in 2022. After his arrival, Villa signed a renewal with Boca in February 2021, linking him with the Ribera club until December of 2024.

Sentence

The mouth player sebastian villa It was found guilty of gender violence and sentenced to two years and one month in prison, in the framework of a complaint made by his ex-partner for events that occurred in 2020. With tears in the eyesthe striker heard the sentence against him today.

Together with his lawyer, Martín Apolo, and accompanied by three friends and his representative, Rodrigo Riep, Villa listened attentively and seriously to the verdict, and then withdrew from the courtroom. Although at one point he could be seen with tears in his eyes, the soccer player remained immutable while he listened to the sentence against him.

During the reading of the verdict, the complainant Cortés was not physically or virtually present, who, when consulted in this regard, preferred not to participate in the hearing, according to reports from the court secretary.

In his last words, the striker “xeneize” assured that he is “innocent” and that “he would never hurt Daniela.”

“What I have to say is that I would never hurt Daniela or her family. I’m innocent. I am an excellent person, a good son, a good brother. I am innocent, I believe in God and I believe that everything will turn out well, in the best way, ”she maintained.

According to the reading of the verdict, Villa was “sentenced to two years and one month in prison of conditional execution with costs, for having resulted author criminally responsible for the crimes of coercive threats in real competition with minor injuries qualified by the link in the context of gender violence”.

In addition to the sentence, which will be subject to conditional compliance, Villa must comply during that time with a series of requirements that the judge imposed on him, among them establishing a residence, submitting to the control of the Board of Released Persons every two months, not having contact with Cortés or his family, refrain from consuming drugs or abusing alcohol consumption, and compliance with psychosocial treatment and participation in workshops on gender violence.

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