Martín Palermo’s spicy statements after the Boca elections: “If Riquelme calls me coach, we’ll last two days”

After the elections of Mouth which they confirmed last Sunday Juan Roman Riquelme as the new president of the club, he spoke this Wednesday Martino Palermo, the coach that the opposition would have chosen if he had won the elections, and referred to the dream, for now interrupted, of becoming coach of the club of which he is an idol.

In an interview with radio La Red, the coach who has just finished second with Platense in the Professional League Cup, made it clear that coexistence with Román would not be possible. “I don’t think he’ll call me. If he does, it will be out of some interest, but he won’t,” He started by saying the top scorer in Xeneize history.

“Look, I’ll be honest with you,” he said when pressed on the topic. “We are different. We respect each other and have lived together like this for many years, but we are different. And when you are different from another person you don’t connect, no matter how much you want to do it for Boca”added the Titan.

“So why will I lie to the Boca fan and tell him ‘yes, call me Román and we’ll see each other, let’s talk’? If we then last two days… or nothing. At the beginning, after all, he knows me and I know him as well as ‘And. “Let’s not generate expectations for Boca fans with something that I don’t see as possible,” closed about it.

Days ago Riquelme tried to play down the situation: “He can do with his life what I want. I love him very much, we were companions, we had a lot of fun. “Everyone has a way of life and I’m happy with mine.”

Palermo, who played politically in favor of the couple made up of Andrés Ibarra and Mauricio Macri, declared that they did not understand why the Boca fans on Sunday at the Bombonera insulted the former president of the nation, given that “he was the best president in the history of Boca”.

And he was sincere: “What hurt me the most was that the fan called me a traitor.”

Other statements from Palermo

• Regarding his time in Platense: “The moment I was most tense was when we lost against Central Córdoba. The start wasn’t good. The phases we went through during the year were tough, but they make you learn what it means to be a coach and work hard every day. We managed to maintain a balance: “In the second part of the year we became stronger and more confident. Hunger increased and we were not satisfied. We left proud.”
• His sincericide in the press conference: “I said what I felt and what my dream as a coach is: I dream of managing Estudiantes and Boca. Whoever interpreted it in one way, as disrespecting the Platense fans, installed something in which I was not involved” .
• Your desire to return to work in the short term: “I want to continue to take advantage of this moment, to continue to enjoy the enjoyment of what has been done.”
• Information on Edinson Cavani: “We need to surround him because he is a different player. The coach must find a way to take advantage of him”