“You won four Libertadores quickly”: Battaglia revealed details of his fight with Agustín Almendra at Boca

Two years have passed, the wounds are starting to heal and the files are declassified. The calendar knocks on the doors of March 2022 and the scandal hits Boca again: in those days, after a heated discussion, Sebastián Battaglia separated Agustín Almendra from the professional Xeneize team: “There was a complicated indiscipline,” the then Boca coach explained at the time.

“The posture had to be calm and convey calm. Here there is a harmony within the team that must be respected and that is why the decisions were made,” said the biggest winner in Xeneize’s history as a player , when he was intercepted by the press at the Aeroparque before a team trip.

“It was a complicated indiscipline. We always wanted to help him, we were always available to everyone. But there is a certain limit, there are things that go sideways. We are on only one path, whoever wants is welcome” welcome,” he concluded, without going into the details of what happened.

Everything, as could be reconstructed at the time, began in training, when Battaglia gave Almendra the bench shirt and the player refused to be part of a team that he wasn’t a starter.

“If you don’t like it, leave”Battaglia would have said, which generated the excessive reaction of the young people which would have earned him his departure for the Reserve.

A few days later, Almendra wanted to retrace his steps: “I’m sorry and I want to talk to Battaglia“He apologized, but in the coach-player relationship there will be no going back.

This Thursday, in view of Good Friday, we will know more about that old dispute which ended with Agustín Almendra leaving the club free and signing with Racing.

“The rules are there to be respected. Otherwise it’s all. Everyone does what they want. You are in a group and you are part of this. There is a responsible part, a coach and a management part”, says Battaglia in the preview of a interview that will be seen on Líbero Versus, this afternoon on TyC Sports.

Subsequently, the now technical director spoke about the meeting he had with the player: “As a player you won everything, but as a coach you are a disaster”, he claims the player contested.

And he continues: “I say this because I have no problem. He told me that part and there is another one, where he tells me: ‘You won by far four Libertadores’. Good thing you only won four, ah…”.

“Maybe they take their mind elsewhere and confuse them, and they come to training thinking one thing that maybe the coach thinks another. If I see that he isn’t doing well or isn’t doing things well, I have to choose. If not, what’s the point? Are you there?”, analyzed the DT from a more general level.