Beccacece and Gallardo grabbed each other in the middle of the match. Photo: Maxi Failla
Things between Gallardo and Beccacece do not seem to be going well. There is a kind of cold war between the River DTs and Defense and Justice. It is that, in recent times, the Varela Falcon was one of the few to have been planted at the Millionaire. Although the last game in Varela was for Núñez, in 2019 the Colectivero won a key game in the Monumental that left the then American champion practically out of the tournament that Racing de Coudet would finally win.
Apparently, the tension between Beccacece and Gallardo began when the River manager wanted to repatriate Enzo Fernández after his good time in defense. To the point that this Sunday, before the match played at Florencio Varela’s Norberto “Tito” Tomaghello stadium in Buenos Aires, the technicians didn’t even say goodbye.
It was 36 minutes later that the pressure cooker stopped exploding. It all started when Beccacece blocked a side of River, which provoked criticism of the Doll from his reserve bench. “He’s crazy,” said Gallardo and made the move which was a lateral. But, when he saw him gesturing, the former assistant of Sampaoli in the Argentine national team reacted to the shouts: “What’s wrong?”began to shout: “Who are you?
Why are they fighting? There are differences that have been going on for a long time, especially when Bambola called Enzo Fernández to return to the River when his contract with Halcón had not yet expired. The defense technician didn’t like it. That’s why they didn’t say goodbye before the meeting.
“River has a South American team, it is normal for it to make a difference,” Beccacece said in 2021 when Enzo Fernández returned to River. El Muñeco, before the Cup match last April, replied: “We are a training team. We will not be looking for selected players and we are not a selection. We are a team that tries to promote the players ”.
Apparently, Marcelo Gallardo doesn’t like Sebastián Beccacece’s ways. Although, it must be said, the two technicians have had their controversies with other colleagues.
Starting with Defense DT, it is worth remembering his afternoon of fury at the Nuovo Gasometro on the 13th of the Professional League when the former Racing coach exploded with fury and threw a bottle against the San Lorenzo audience. The situation ended in scandal when the police intervened and Beccacece ended up fighting with the agents.
But the scandal occurred in October last year when the DT Board of Trustees grabbed the Defense by the neck at the end of the match. On that occasion, when the referee whistles the end of the match, Beccacece believed that Delfino was coming to hug him but what happened was that he reacted to the exuberant exuberance of the three goals of the Halcón coach. It all ended in a scandal.
But Gallardo can also count on some crossing. The hottest happened with Gabriel Milito in a duel between River and Argentinos for the Copa Libertadores. It all began when the former Independiente asked for a card for Marcos Angileri, which provoked the response of the Doll: “He went on the ball, what do you say, he went on the ball. what yellow? You are next to me, Gabriel.
But the statements of the man who leads El Bicho continued and Gallardo asked him to shut up: “Shut up, I can’t take it anymore”, the man from River threw him, who generated Milito’s reaction: “Who are you to make me shut up! “. Towards the end of the game, they talked more calmly and things ended better among the DTs.
But things in Varela were different. Beccacece is sent off and the TDs do not meet at the end of the 90 minutes. But the Defense man waited for the River man in the locker room corridor and it all ended between thrusts and real scandal. According to whoever was on the spot, if they hadn’t been separated, they would have ended up with pineapple.
Source: Clarin