The tense cross between Oscar Ruggeri and Sebastián Vignolo for the departure of Carlos Izquierdoz from Boca

The strong decision you made Hugo Ibarra remove Carlos Izquierdoz, captain and great performance of Boca, from the starting 11, generated a lot of discussion. The theme, which had several chapters over the weekend, continued this Monday in the press conference of Ameal, Bermúdez, Ibarra, Pompeii and Gracián where they ratified the continuity of the former right-back as a coach until December.

The release of Cali it made a lot of noise and F90 a debate appeared in which Oscar Ruggeri He had a crossroads of different ideas with Sebastián Vignolo on the situation.

Vignolo: That Zambrano played in Izquierdoz’s place was Ibarra’s decision.

Ruggeri: Ah, but you say so!

Vignolo: Yes, I’m talking. I speak for myself. Now, isn’t Marcos Rojo’s embrace of Izquierdoz a lack of respect for the one who plays for two? If I’m Zambrano …

Ruggeri: It is disrespectful to remove the captain. He was the most regular of them all for I don’t know for how long. He staked everything, injured he wanted to return. He was the leader who spoke. That he was talking inside and you didn’t listen to him. This is disrespectful to the group. And the other day the group took over him.

buffaloes: Who did the group account?

Ruggeri: Leaders leaders have taken their toll.

buffaloes: The management passed the bill to those who went on strike before the game.

Ruggeri: To hit? I corrected that word.

Later, Ruggeri was dissatisfied with how the new manager performed and expressed his opinion on how he should have handled the situation.

“Bring the captain out why did he go to talk? It was better to calm everything down. And to think that he would then decide what he would like as a technician. This is what I should have done Ibarra“said the stubborn who was very critical of the coach xeneize.

What did Ibarra say about Izquierdoz’s departure?

“It was a technical decision, for that I am the manager, I have the responsibility, I thought it was the best thing for the team”said the coach of 48 years oldwho in his reply did not leave room for a cross-examination and replied in manual form when requested by the journalists.

Despite the statements of the coach that it was ratified until December in the set of The bank of the riverone of the main outbreaks that fueled the exclusion of Cali of the titles was the discussion with the Football Council about the Cup prizes before playing with Corinthians, which went viral. The campus was clear in the idea and in the great references where nine appears among those names, Darío Benedetto, took it upon himself to express their discontent. In the harangue before the game with the thyme in La Bombonera for the second leg of the round of 16, was filmed by the cameras in the corridors and showed a clear message: “Yesterday they treated us like losers,” Pipa harangued.

Faced with this strong decision made by the former right winger who won 15 titles with the Boca shirt, did not do well in the squad and responded to the facts. The expert central defender red framesafter transforming the first goal of the match against San Lorenzo which gave him the partial victory, he took off the captain’s ribbon and crossed the entire field to hug Izquierdoz so as to show him all the support. With this situation, the central defender revealed his unease with that decision.

And not only did he exhibit anger because the Cali left the team in existence one of the best players in the squadbut other than that declared public war on the Boca Council led by Juan Román Riquelme.

When asked about this topic Jorge Bermudezthat makes up the football board and was part of the conference where it was confirmed Ibarra as a coach until December, the Template he dodged the question and said: “Today the reason for the press conference is the presentation of our technical staff. We are happy, proud. It is a great satisfaction for the Council to be able to present them. All things football will be answered by the coaching staff on Friday before the match. We are happy, “said the former Colombian central defender.

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In addition to justifying his decision with Izquierdoz, the Black bar He also referred to the attitude of the Boca players against San Lorenzo… “We took the team, the team, the day before, and no doubt they were beaten for being eliminated by the Libertadores. It also touched us as players, to be like that. They know that in this club they cannot afford more days of pain and lamentation, “said the former player.

To these statements, Ibarra closed: “We have to turn the page to reverse this, Boca does not wait. We want to pass it on because once we have passed it. We have to recover quickly.”. Ibarra picked up the pen on campus and started making decisions.