Despite having been barely in charge of River for three months, Martin Demichelis He was already involved in some media controversies. He ran into DT Lanús at the weekend: the former Bayern Munich player complained about the lack of air conditioning in La Fortaleza and criticized the DT garnet for not greeting him during his visit to the South. And yesterday a new opponent came into the ring against Demichelis: Andres Fassipresident of Talleres, he lashed out at DT Millonario for trying to convince Javier Gandolfi be his field assistant. Far from remaining silent, Micho has not avoided trouble following his side’s 3-0 win over Racing de Córdoba in the Argentine Cup.
During the celebration of the Mística Talleres event, an institutional meeting, the highest authority of the Cordoba team spoke in front of all the guests and praised coach T, leaving a stick to the River coach: “Perhaps, at some point, you will need to seek out Martín Demichelis as an assistant on the field“.
Demichelis’s attempt against Gandolfi, at the end of last year, for Cordovan to enter the technical staff of Millionaire did not go well at all within the Cordoba team which has not yet forgotten the attitude of the former Bayern Munich .
For this reason, after River’s qualification for the 16th round of the Argentine Cup, Demichelis referred to the declarations and was amazed by the chicana received against him: “I was surprised by Andrés (Fassi), who I know. On two occasions he offered me the job. She filled it with texts and calls to my rep. She surprises me. I know Jorge Brito’s statements. As a Cordovan as he is, he’s a bad joke teller“.
The player has been tasked with confirming the rumors that the president of T was looking for Demichelis to become coach of Talleres after the departure of Chief Medinain mid-2021, when still Micho He held the position of youth coach at Bayern Munich.
Some time before, the president of River, Jorge Brito, had defended the DT he had chosen to replace Marcelo Gallardo from the statements of the head honcho of Talleres: “Fassi is bad enough to play jokes, they are not to be played on others, more so if they don’t know, I respect him as a leader, but the phrase was unfortunate speaking of someone else. If it was in a private sphere, it can happen, but if it was done as a public statement it was a shame.”
The little crossover between Demichelis and Kudelka
Not only was Fassi the one who spoke up about the River coach, but Lanús coach Frank Kudelka got annoyed with Demichelis after he didn’t greet him during the match and has even compared him to Gallardo ever since.”He didn’t feel like he was on a throne“.
Having said that, the coach with a German past also referred to this comment and clarified: “I’m new to Argentine football as a coach and I try to respect the protocols imposed by Argentine football. I haven’t stopped. I don’t put myself on throne from no one”. And he added: “I understand by protocol that the local coach will greet the visitor“.
Source: Clarin
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