The defender of the Agropecuario intervenes who injured Zeballos: “I’m not bad milk, I didn’t go to hurt him, I’m distressed”

Finally, the attacker’s serious injury from Boca Juniors, Exequiel Zeballos, following the violent infringement committed by the defender of Agricultural, Milton Leyendeker, in the first minutes of the round of 16 match of Argentine Cup that Xeneize won last night in Salta by 1 to 0.

Last night the young striker was treated in a sanatorium in the capital Salta where a serious injury was expected. This morning, already in Buenos Aires, the official report that Boca showed on its official channels stated that “Zeballos suffered a distal tibiofibular syndesmosis injury with deltoid ligament injury and avulsion of the posterior malleolus of the right ankle. Surgical treatment is decided.

“It was not my intention to hurt Zeballos. I apologize publicly, I hope there is nothing serious“, was the first thing Agropecuario defender Milton Leyendeker said last night after the heavy foul and when the result was not known.

This Thursday, starting at noon, Leyendeker started speaking in the various media and sports strips where the Agropecuario player once again expressed remorse. “I wanted to communicate with Zeballos, I sent him a message but I have not received a reply, but this goes into the background, the important thing is that he recovers. I am at his complete disposal”, he commented on Radio La Red.

Some time later, when the part that confirmed the serious injury was ready, Leyendeker spoke on ESPN F90, with Sebastián Vignolo: “I am distressed, he is a colleague, I have never gone with the intention of hurting him. But hey, there I saw the medical side … distressed by this. “

In the preview of the interview, the driver and his teammates wondered if five minutes into the game Leyendeker had gone to look for Changuito with bad intentions or if his idea was simply to “mark the field” and show his firmness. An old football motto that will have to be – at least – analyzed, no doubt. But, when he was in front of him, Vignolo asked him: “What was the idea?“.

“Everything is said, I am calm. I was confident that I would get to the ball first. In the images you can see I have seen them a thousand times. I am confident but he hits me and I grab him. At no time did I want to hit him or hurt him”.

Why was it so strong? “I’m going so fast because I’m going to the ball, I’m not going to hit it,” she said.

Leyendeker said when he was sent off he went to the locker room “calm down and I took a shower”. And that he only realized he could be serious much later: “When I saw that she was crying, I started to worry more“.

According to Leyendeker, in Ascent you play more: “This is my first expulsion in my life. I play yes, I go steady on every ball, but always in good faith, never in bad milk. It is the first red card I receive in my In the national team, which is more frictionless, I have two yellow cards, which tell you who I am. “

“I didn’t sleep, the cell phone exploded,” said Leyendeker, who claims to have received attacks via text. “Anyone who knows me knows I’m not bad and I didn’t intend to hurt him.”

On both La Red and ESPN, Leyendeker said he approached Benedict to apologize to Zeballos and the team. “I talked to Pipa but they had already taken him away, I apologized and he thanked me for his apologies.”

Last night the player expressed his point of view on the yellow card that the referee gave him in the first instance and then showed him the red: “With the warning he was fine. Then, when he sent me off, he I asked why he made it, but seeing the pictures later in the locker room I think it was the right oneor”.

And this afternoon he returned to the subject: “On the pitch I thought the yellow card was fine. After the shower I looked at the game and I realized it”, he contradicted the statements of the night before.

Finally, Leyendeker said: “If he accepts my apology, it is up to him. Now, the important thing is that he recover. I send him my support and all my strength to recover.”