* Bermúdez spoke regarding the rumors
The elimination of Boca Juniors of the Copa Libertadores opted for the dismissal of Sebastian Battaglia from the position of coach, but the crisis that broke out in the club did not end there. Hugo Ibarra He began his cycle as interim with a view to the duel once morest San Lorenzo on Saturday for the Professional League and waiting for the Football Council to choose the new coach. Meanwhile, a piece of news shook the tense calm: Was Carlos Izquierdoz separated from the starting team at the request of the directors?
The information spread strongly in the presence of Carlos Zambrano in practice instead of Calione of the referents of the current campus. Jorge Bermudezleader of the Football Council, decided to break the silence before these versions and raised the situation.
“They said that we took him out, that there was a problem between us and the coaching staff with the player. Carlos Izquierdoz, like the 22 other teammates who are available to the coaching staff, is going to concentrate and the coaching staff will surely make the decision to put on the pitch those who want. I don’t know where the different versions come from. There is a technical trident at the moment and they make decisions”, expressed the Pattern in an interview with F12a program broadcast by ESPN.
“We are going to be clear: since the Football Council arrived in Boca, we are the ones to blame for all the meetings and all the situations that you want to imagine. What has happened here is serious, respectful work. At no time was there a meeting that left one outside or one inside. They are just speculation. One understands that they have to go out to talk regarding a specific situation, but the truth is that very little, or almost never, is reality. Respect for people who already understand how these situations are handled, ”she raised regarding the rumors of conflict.
Ibarra, who is accompanied by Leandro Gracián and Mariano Herrón, will be in charge of directing the cast until a replacement for Battaglia is defined: “I can assure you that today we have a technical trident that makes the decisions and we are going to respect them a lot. As we once respected Miguel Ángel Russo when he arrived at this institution, it was said that we made the alignment for him. As we have respected until the last day our friend Sebastián Battaglia, who until the last day made his line-ups and made his decisions. And we start from today, hopefully for as long as it takes, to respect this trident and hopefully things turn out the way everyone in the Boca World wants”.
The versions indicated that a conflict between the leaders of the squad and the board had broken out hours before the transcendental clash once morest Corinthians. The test that Ibarra carried out in practice with Zambrano in the last row gave further strength to these rumors, since Izquierdoz was the captain during the Battaglia cycle.
The truth is that the Cali is on the list of concentrates that the club published yesterday followingnoon ahead of the clash once morest Cyclone This Saturday from 3:30 p.m. New Gasometer. In total, Ibarra placed 23 surnames on that list.
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