After the great controversy, the players of the Patronato refused to testify. Photo: Luciano Thieberger
Once again the violence in Argentine football has caught all eyes. The game played between Central Barracks Y Patronage This Tuesday, which ended with a 2-1 win for the locals, was marked by controversial arbitration and a pitched battle at the end that resulted in the arrest of players from Entre Ríos’s side.
facundo savacoach of the visit, went crazy after the final whistle to confront the referee, Jorge Balino, due to arbitration disputes. The police intervened and generated a sequence rarely seen in Argentine football: the players of the Template arguing with the police authorities. A pitched battle from another context.
After the scandal, four players (Juan Barinaga, Matías Pardo, Axel Rodríguez and Justo Giani) and the Goalkeeper Coach (Damián González) of the Board of Trustees were arrested by order of Dr. Celsa Ramírez, of the prosecutor’s office specializing in mass events and Sport Spectacles and spent the entire night at 10 police station in Flores.
Clashes between the players of Patronato and the Police after the controversial defeat against Barracas Central.
This morning Oscar Lenzi, president of the Board of Trustees, approached the media waiting around the Public Prosecutor’s Office and clarified the situation pending the arrival of the authority on duty. “Once the prosecutor arrives, I think it will be a short trial so the kids can leave,” he said.
“Emotionally we are very bad, this will affect us a lot, personally I am very outraged by the behavior of the referees”, added Lenzi. And he pointed again against the referee: “We were very afraid of Baliño because he had done us enormous damage at home. Especially with the declaration of the president of the Court of Referees (Beligoy) who came out to defend him in a performance that in our opinion It was terrible.”
“We will wait for the Baliño report to see what it is and certainly we will have victims for the next game because the report will certainly not be positive”, clarified the president about the report that weighs alone. The board of trustees is to coach Boca this Sunday at home.
Source: Clarin