After the fall in Parque Patricios, a group of violent men broke into the Olympic Village. The kids of the club asked to leave.
“I’m going to shoot you two in the legs,” heard Leonardo Jara. Before, a car had crossed him, they grabbed him by the jacket and demanded that he get out of his vehicle. The arrival of Sebastián Méndez seemed to calm the waters in Liniers, however the elimination in the Argentine Cup against San Martín de San Juan and the defeat in a “six-point game” this Sunday on the Huracán field returned everything to zero sheets and the bar tightened the squad after the fall in Parque Patricios.
This Sunday night, when the players returned to the concentration, a group of violent men entered the Olympic Village by force and threatened the team with death. According to those present, the situation was so tense that some youth players asked to leave the club.
Two of the most affected were Gianluca Prestianni, one of the jewels of the inferiors who is barely 17 years old, and Francisco Ortega, other of the boys who emerged from the club. Jara, Gómez and Castro were the others attacked.
A couple of months ago, a group of members of La Pandilla de Liniers had scolded the players in practice. And now, the situation repeats itself.
The balloon went down to the Fort
Méndez spoke after the game: “These games have to be played to the death”
Vélez Sarsfield’s coach, Sebastián Méndez, was upset by the end of the championship that his team had in the last two days, in which they drew goalless at home with Unión and today fell 1-0 on their visit to Huracán, committing again with relegation, and admitted that “in these games the team fell back”.
“We did not play the game we had in mind today with Huracán because it took us ahead. I am angry because we did not play the game as we should have played it. These games are played to the death and we did not do it,” Méndez acknowledged with his usual transparency in the post-match press conference in Parque de los Patricios.
“The most salvageable thing about these matches since we arrived are the points we’ve gotten, but they’re not enough. We’ve only been here recently but we’re also responsible, because after the first victories we didn’t grow. That’s why now we need players to come and play, to accompany to the boys, because in the League Cup there are 14 finals and we must play them as such and not pay lip service to it”, he emphasized.
Regarding today’s game, he described that “there was no football superiority. But they took us ahead and I don’t like that. We only kicked once at goal. We are predictable and it is very difficult for us to reach the opposite fence. We have to be more intense than what we were. That’s why I insist that we played 14 finals and we have to work. We must be a rockier, tougher team and one that also plays more. These two games we fell back”.
“That’s why I stressed that we need great players to accompany these guys, who play well but are burning stages. It’s time to make the effort. We also need them to come quickly, because now there are no excuses, since from the next tournament We play a lot as a team and as an institution. We are going to play another type of competition and we need experience”, he highlighted.
“It’s that we also lost players, because Julián Fernández also joined Lucas Janson and Diego Godín and all three left the club. I always talk to the leaders and we must admit that this semester was bad, even with us. That’s why we all have to understand what we are playing for”, finally warned the “Galician”.
The difficult sporting situation and the reference to a decimated squad seemed to have its correlate a couple of hours later, when some bars approached the Villa Olímpica property where the soccer players left their cars and, according to local sources, uttered some threats against they.
FOOTBALL VELEZ DT-MENDEZ
2023-07-31 03:20:43
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