Where is Sebastián Villa’s head?

In the run-up to the Professional Football League Cup final between Boca and Tigre, in Córdoba, there is one fact that is inevitable. It has nothing to do with football, but it traverses the game from end to end: where is Sebastián Villa going?

The Colombian striker is the most unbalanced footballer in Boca. Suspended in the Copa Libertadores, Sebastián Battaglia’s team missed him in the first five dates of Group E and hopes to prepare him for Thursday’s duel against Deportivo Cali, when the win alone serves to pass the round.

In Córdoba, Villa was with the delegation and is considered the coach’s starting player. Little more can be said about growing coffee in sports. He will work like lightning over Kempes, he will replace bad decisions with good ones and may be decisive again.. In the League Cup he scored two goals against Aldosivi, one against River at Monumental, one against Lanús and one in the quarterfinals against Defense and Justice. He is the team’s second scorer behind Darío Benedetto, who has 7.

Meanwhile, in Justice advance two cases against him. The first is led by Daniela Cortés, her former partner, this is because sexual violence and waiting for the date set for the start of the oral trial. The second was filed just 24 hours before Boca and Villa went out to play in the semifinals against Racing. It was done by a young woman who was accusing him sexual abuse.

It asserts: the cases are advancing and that in the judiciary system is an indication. Villa has already been notified of the accusation by prosecutor González of UFI No. 3 by Esteban Echeverría.

On Thursday, the soccer player who was born in Bello, Antuioquía, and trained at Club Deportivo Palmazul and then moved to Deportes Tolima turned 26. He made a post on his Instagram account hugging his mother and wrote: “Always family and friends, in good times and not so good, although sometimes complicated, the wolf would be bad if the narrator was Little Red Riding Hood, right?”. This is the only public demonstration Villa has made since learning of the new complaint against him.

Previously, on television, Boca vice president Juan Román Riquelme said he had to do “take off your hat” in the work done by Villa. And what was happening off the field was “another issue” that he preferred not to comment on and kicked it under the rug of the soccer player’s private sphere.

Boca issued two statements in which it expressed its “collaboration with Justice”, the second signed by Adriana Bravo, Boca’s third vice president, the only woman in the position in 117 years of history. In addition, on Thursday he assigned a post to the striker on his social networks to send him birthday greetings.

And in so many questions, there is one concrete truth: everyone in Argentina is entitled to the principle of innocence. That is, Villa is innocent until proven guilty. So, between what is happening in court, in Boca as an institution and in Justice, even what is written on social networks and says -for example- Malena Galmarini (“I’m not afraid of her because of the game, I’m afraid of her as a woman”the president of AySA) declared many information gaps full of questions from the media and with much anger from network users demanding that Boca “remove” the player from the squad.

Amidst so much confusion, some reflections appear that can clarify the panorama. On her Twitter account, journalist Ángela Lerena thought: “A defendant’s right to work is an issue. Making a claim for Villa, like Riquelme on TV, such as institutional greeting (NdeR: in reference to Boca’s birthday greeting to Villa), is another. The complainant appeared in Justice with evidence; the case is progressing and it is very serious. Gender -based violence kills. Doesn’t it matter? “.

For her part, writer and journalist Luciana Peker warns: “Players (and anyone) accused of serious crime do not have to play because, in addition, it is a reflection of society’s impunity. Those accused of minor situations can reverse the situation if instead apologize for the violence they bet on transformation “.

Journalist Roberto Parrotino provides a fact: “The League Cup started with the escrache of Diego García (NdeR: the Paraguayan soccer player with a reason for sexual abuse) upon his arrival on the Board of Trustees and will end with another complaint against Sebastián Villa, who will play in the final with Boca. At least 28 First Argentine soccer players have been denounced for sexual abuse and violence since 2015 “.

However, in a text published in the magazine Anfibia, lawyer Sabrina Cartabia Groba observed that “The complexity of the problem is such that the penalty tools are useless”. And expand: “When criminal proceedings are conducted, a window of opportunity opens to think about what else a football club can do.”

“A sports institution with access to a large number of men and sufficient resources is fertile ground to develop another form of governance that is not just punishment”, He added. And he suggests: “Recognizing by (the institution) that the public-private division is a fiction and it facilitates and conducts individual and group reflection to prevent new events, with the collective impact that the process can have. this if it will be held at one of the most important soccer clubs in the world “.

Where will Sebastián Villa go? What will your athlete’s body go through during this time?

In Córdoba, Boca’s bus avoids people waiting at the Holiday Inn’s door and only a few lightning strikes. No time for autographs or photos. In the institutional video, Villa with a chinstrap can be seen walking down the sleeve from the plane to the ground in Cordoba. He points his index finger at the camera..

As in the movie “Encanto”, at the press conference before “La Revancha” —which the organization called the League Cup final—, “there was no talk of Villa”. What thing does it have? Players will throw the answer “in the corner”. To those who dedicate themselves to communication, the issue is not even addressed between croissants and coffee as the “attention” that the organization makes available to the press. “We’re not talking about the Villa, no, no, no …”

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