Cacique Medina kicked a player and was sent off: unusual explanation and apology

the error of Luca Hoyos which facilitated Godoy Cruz’s 1-1 goal against Vélez in Mendoza, stole much of the commentary on the match that opened the 11th round of the Professional Football League. However, there was another situation that occurred in the Malvinas Argentinas and that attracted attention: the expulsion of Alessandro Medina. This time not for an angry protest by the Uruguayan technician, but for an infringement.

Yes, Medina has committed an infringement.

37 minutes of the second half were played and the duel went 1-1, built by goals from Pier Barrios and Diego Godín in the first quarter of an hour, when Matías Ramírez, entered just five minutes earlier for Tadeo Allende, tried Escape from the buoy of Tomas Guidara on the left wing of the Tombino attack, he slightly cut the side wing and crashed after receiving a blow. It was not Vélez’s right-back who hit him, but the coach of the visiting team.

Medina tried to ignore him and claimed that Ramírez clashed with him, but it was clearly the Uruguayan who stretched his right leg to interrupt the career of the former Ferro and Villa Dálmine player. Referee Pablo Echavarría ignored the coach’s accusations and showed him the red card.

He was struggling in a play with Guidara, he slipped and left the field. I was close and, instinctively, I set foot”, Acknowledged Medina, who acknowledged that the decision to expel him for this was correct. “Pablo is a good referee and he explained to me what happened. I understood it, I understand it and it’s okay “, he remarked.

However, the Cacicco attempted to add a reminder at the bottom to seek an explanation for his conduct. “Coaches feel football in a very special way. A few years ago I stopped playing, but I never lost that of being a footballer. I feel like them on all occasions, ”he said. Apparently, that still latent instinct leads him to play football as when he shone as a scorer at Nacional de Montevideo.

“It was surprising and rare, an incomprehensible act. He put his foot on me to make me fall, ”Ramírez complained after the match. And he detailed: “At first I didn’t realize it. But when I saw that there was a pair of jeans walking on the pitch, I thought it was crazy, unsportsmanlike.. I turned around and realized that I had stepped into the field ”.

Although he seemed more surprised than angry about the move, the 23-year-old striker pointed out that Medina’s move had not been “a good attitude”. And the error is more exposed because he is a great person and has many years in football. He knows it was wrong and he has to apologize“, he has declared.

Without getting to the point of hitting an opponent, Medina had already seen a red card for interfering in the development of a match. On August 22 last year, during a match Talleres, his then team, won 2-1 against Unión in Santa Fe for the seventh round of the championship, Nazareno Arasa sent him off for crossing the sideline and attempting to intercept a balloon.