The sadness of the Independiente players after the descent into the second division has ended. In June it will be 10 years from that historic date.
Doubt as to whether third parties supported their rivals hovered over the course of the year Independent tried, and failed, to avoid relegation in National B. The then president of the Avellaneda club, Saverio Canteroechoed journalistic suspicions after an unexpected result between Racing Y Quilmes and highlighted situations of that encounter that he considered “abnormal”.
“Racing is played backwards, it is played to lose. That is not football folklore, it is charging to lose,” said Cantero, without hesitation. The response of the referees rained on the cell phone of the owner of the Red with the same message: they assured him that he would be tried for his conjectures. Subsequently, personally to the AFA, they lowered the tone of the forecasts. But two Independiente partners asked for the intervention of the Justice and a case was opened that was not successful.
The matter was so much commented that on that occasion the online betting houses – there was no Argentine – took the game off the offers. The one who did not withdraw him from his offer paid more for a victory for Racing than for the unlikely one for Quilmes.
“Quilmes beat us well with a great goal from Cauteruccio, no money was needed“he explained nine years later Adrian Fernandezwho was director of Racing from 2009 to 2021 and was part of the called bar Racing stones. He left the club after a confrontation with Diego Militothen manager.
The Bear Fernández publicly admitted in an interview in the space he leads Flavio Azzaro on YouTube, which in the 2012/13 season put “a lot of money” to cheer Independiente’s rivals. “One or two departments,” he represented graphically.
Can a new case be opened?
With the sayings recorded and replicated on news and social networks, there are three possible scenarios: the first, that a prosecutor acts ex officio and orders an investigation based on Fernández’s confession. Until Thursday, the Avellaneda UFI 4 -thema, such as n. 6 by Lano and the 35 of the Municipality of Buenos Aires-, was not aware of Fernández’s statements.
The second possibility is that Whoever ask the Justice to initiate an investigation to ascertain the veracity of the statements and act according to the laws in force.
The third is reserved for the Argentine Football Federation (AFA): if a manager of Independent report the statements to Disciplinary Courtthis body transfers the case to the Ethics Court and from there it is possible to ask for intervention before the ordinary justice.
How come? Because there is a law that penalizes incentives. It is popularly called De la Rua law on sporting events, which provides for imprisonment from one month to three years for anyone “offering or delivering a gift in order to facilitate or guarantee the irregular outcome of a sports competition or the abnormal performance of a participant in it”.
a fictionalized case
The match between Racing and Quilmes has always been suspected. It is in fact recreated in a chapter of “Against the System”, the novel written by Cantero, after his tenure as president of the Independiente. Hence his alter ego Vittorio Abascal tells the instances of a game that in fiction adapts to what the academy has lost on the pitch brewerfor which he (also) testified in court.
“To Abascal’s utter bewilderment, in court they deduced what happened as he did, but argued that if they didn’t pay to lose, they didn’t know what the crime was to punish them,” Cantero wrote resignedly about his character’s misfortune in the novel. .. Will there be a new appointment with the Justice?
Source: Clarin
