The sincericide of Rodrigo Rey, the “actor” goalkeeper of Independiente de Tevez, spite or anti-football?

This Tuesday evening, during the second appointment of League Cupduring the match between Velez AND Independent in Liniers, when match time had just passed. The archer Rodrigo Rey He pulled it out the door and it automatically fell to the floor.

It looked like it was the team’s partial victory Carlos Tevez In Fortín there was a risk given that the former Gimnasia was one of the figures who had supported the precious victory as a guest. However, a few minutes later, and thanks to the intervention of doctors, the man born in Río Cuarto recovered and returned to his place as if nothing had happened.

At the end of the match and with the confirmation that the three points remained for Avellaneda, thus adding six precious points which guarantee them the advantage in Zone A, Rey broke with the so-called “football codes” and he hid what happened, with a decision that could bring him certain reproaches (his own and others) in the weeks or days to come.

The red goalkeeper received the order from one of Tevez’s assistants and threw himself to the ground. A change had to be made and the coach, young but astute, needed to explain it to the players with the necessary clarity. That’s why when the clock struck the 63rd minute of the second half, the Córdoba man served from goal and automatically feigned an injury to his right hamstring.

Despite the pain Rey showed on his face, Tevez ignored the scene and called the players onto the court as if he were playing a basketball game. Picardy or anti-football?

“We had to make a tactical change. One of the guys came and told me ‘Hey, we need to make a couple of changes,'” confessed Rodrigo Matias Pelliccionichronicler of TyC Sportsin the Amalfi changing rooms.

When he fell to the ground everyone thought he was injured but looking at the replay we understand that when the goalkeeper fakes, all the players go to talk to Carlos Tévez, who was waiting for them on the sideline with a sheet of paper to explain to his players the tactical changes he has made. made to maintain the lead.

“Sometimes these are things that happen and that are useful and part of football, nothing more,” said Rey when asked about the play that saw him as the protagonist and served to cool down the game in a key moment, when there ‘It was midway through the game. there’s an hour left to go.