2023-04-18 22:36:14
After his retirement from professional activity, former soccer player Carlos Valdés He ventured into the media and is currently part of the ESPN channel’s payroll. The World Cup player with the Colombian National Team and who was also one of the benchmarks of Independiente Santa Fe in recent times, he is characterized by speaking up front and even having several crosses with Carlos Antonio Vélez.
This Monday, the defender from Valle del Cauca revealed a curious anecdote with the ‘cardinal’ team, which has many ingredients. A great team, a historic title, a spiritual guide and even the breaking of a pact between the players on that team.
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Carlos Valdés and the curious anecdote about Santa Fe in 2013
In 2013, Santa Fe was the team that played the best soccer in Colombia or at least, the one that obtained the best results locally and internationally. For that season, the capital squad reached the semifinals of the Copa Libertadores and everything indicated that it could reach the final of this competition, in addition to fighting for the title of the Postobón League that semester.
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However, that squad did not manage to be crowned in any of these contests. In the international, fell defeated in the overall score to Olimpia of Paraguay by 2-1 Two months after the first leg of that confrontation, Carlos Valdés revealed on ESPN what could have been the reasons for not achieving this title and stated that it was due to the breaking of a pact they had within the squad.
Valdés revealed that at that time they had a spiritual guide hired by the club called Sandra Merinowho is credited with helping earn the seventh star in 2012, as well as instilling behaviors like walking the pitches barefoot before games.
Merino told them that the title of the Copa Libertadores was almost registered in their showcases, but that all players had to commit to follow a fidelity pact with their partners or those who did not have had to get one only for that month. Finally, Valdés did not reveal who would have rotated this agreement, but hinted that two players (one was sent off and another was involved in two rival goals) would be targeted.
It should be remembered that in the first leg, Wilson Gutiérrez’s team fell 2-0 in Asunción and then won 1-0 in Bogotá. In the first, left-back Marino García did not have his best night and Gerardo Bedoya was sent off.
She was clearly a person who believed a lot in God and was very religious and all these issues, and then before the first leg she comes and says: ‘God already promised you that this is your title, but you have to make a commitment during a month of being faithful to their partners’, then whoever did not have had to find a partner for that month.
When that first game is lost, he says: ‘there is someone here who is not doing things well’… that day a teammate was sent off and another was involved in the two goals, so when we got here (Bogotá) in the discussion of the week the issue was that they accused the two of them that they had not fulfilled the pact.
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