“I’m going to step aside, I’m not going to give”: the emphatic response of DT Claudio Rodríguez

In the press conference following the 2-2 draw in the Union Magdalena con Juniorthe technician ‘banana tree’, claudio rodriguez He was emphatic in stating that, despite the results crisis the team is going through, he does not intend to resign.

Rodríguez was upset when a journalist questioned him if he considered it was time to leave the bench and allow the arrival of a strategist to save the club from relegation.

“I step to the side I will not give. Note that Cali and Junior have also gone eight games without winning. I don’t know what you want to tell me. If the question is with a double meaning, with bad intentions, I am not going to answer it, but I am going to step aside, I am not going to give it ”, said the technical director.

The tense attitude of the coach remained before a question that was later asked by another of the journalists who went to the place where Rodríguez together with Ricardo Márquez were giving statements.

Once once more, the question was related to the current position of the team in the league and in the relegation table: in both it is in the lower part.

“The malicious questions they ask me have no respect; I respect everyone, I come to work honestly and I put what I see best. I put those who are better off, even if it seems to you that they are notor,” he commented.

Likewise, the technician questioned the journalist. “You never come to training, you don’t know what’s happening, so you can’t talk for 90 minutes. Do not speak out of sympathy, if you are going to criticize, criticize properly, and if you see the training sessions you cannot speak. No matter how much you laugh and disrespect me, I speak with all respect to you”he expressed.

“I go out to win every game”

Prior to these questions related to his continuity in office, Rodríguez stated that, in the game once morest Junior, Unión should have gone up on the scoreboard at halftime.

“Unión Magdalena in the first half had to leave with one to two goals up. We had that bad luck. We made a mistake in a play that we left it alone, they scored the goal, three minutes of despair and we lost 2-0, but they are classics and the classics must be played, and the truth is that Unión Magdalena today showed that they might have been got the three points”he asserted.