2023-09-03 07:36:34
Losing a classic, it is known, can lead to unpredictable consequences. That happened with Colón: a defeat with Unión in August 2011 chained a series of episodes that caused a scandal throughout the province. Players, a blind seer, Justice, the Church and, of course, the fans were involved. And all because they destroyed the sculpture of a Virgin whom they considered “mufa”. Nonsense: who can come up with such a heresy in Santa Fe, no less?
The nonsense began when the Sabalero squad became convinced that the bad spell they had been suffering at home had someone responsible: the Virgin who was in one of the stands of the Brigadier López stadium. The idea had been inoculated by a blind man who had been summoned because he had a knack for driving away negative energies. And it seems that the diagnosis of the blind seer was rigorous. After walking for a few minutes on the lawn, he asked: “Is there a Virgin here?” Everyone’s eyes were riveted on that immaculate white image, eight feet tall that Jorge Fosatti had donated ten years earlier, when he passed through the club as coach. A few days later the altar was empty.
The rumor regarding the disappearance of the Virgin began to circulate through the streets of Santa Fe and a criminal complaint fell once morest the club for “qualified robbery”. The Board of Directors reacted with a statement explaining that the image was actually in a restoration process. It was around those days when the first graffiti appeared on the streets of Santa Fe: “Garcé atheist, return the Virgin” and “Garcé, the Virgin does not stain”.
Until the subject reached the masses. Archbishop José María Arancedo and priest Olidio Panigo took care of the matter and from the altar attended Germán Lerche, president of Colón, who in those days was busy with the eighth re-election of Don Julio.
The ball grew and became unmanageable. The leaders of Columbus had no choice but to redo what was undone. Someone remembered that the original Virgin had been made by Saúl Miller, a sculptor born in San Lorenzo who now lived in Villa Anisacate, a lost town in Córdoba with 2,000 inhabitants. They went there and found a stumbling block: since the first Virgin had not been made with a mold, the sequel might not be identical.
“I can make it as similar as possible,” promised the artist, author as well as a monument by Néstor Kirchner and another by Mercedes Sosa. Miller complied: something similar came out.
Then Ariel Garcé put his face and sent a statement to the court. He said that among the staff – all believers, that is true – they made the decision to restore the Virgin because they saw it as deteriorated, that they rented a crane to lower it, that they transferred it in a truck, that due to some inopportune potholes it broke, that when it He saw himself in pieces, felt deep guilt and began to cry, and furious at his misfortune he threw away the fragments of the sculpture. “There was no bad intention, there were no lies, there was no disrespect,” Garcé listed, visibly affected by the irreparable loss. There was a devoted decision and an accident.”
More than two months later, the leaders installed the replica made by the sculptor from Villa Anisacate. But there was some resistance. Fans appeared who did not want her. By mufa.
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