Tucuman It is one of the most football-loving provinces in the country, and although the celebrations resound for the debut victory of Atlético against Boca, for the first date of the Professional League, in the Garden of the Republic everyone looks towards San Martinwho militates in the First Nationalwith the war declared between the DT Diego Flores and the footballer Ivan Zafarana.
Zafarana, 29 years old and with time in various Ascenso teams, arrived at Santo in the middle of last year after a great campaign in Estudiantes de Caseros and could not establish himself in the starting team under the orders of Pablo Frontini, but his current situation worsened in this season, after the arrival of Diego Flores.
Flores, a former soccer player and coach from Córdoba who became a translator of Marcelo Bielsa in Italy, France and England, he decided to leave El Loco after 7 years of working at his side to launch himself as coach after the call of Godoy Cruz Antonio Tombain September 2021.
“The Translator”, as he was quickly nicknamed in Argentine football, had two cycles that were louder than effective in the Mendoza Express and in December of last year he accepted the call of San Martín to fight for promotion to the First division, a challenge that is being carried out well. He is second in Zone A, one point behind the leader San Martin de San Juanwith seven wins, five draws and three losses in fifteen games.
Furthermore, he is playing the Argentine Cupwhere this Wednesday he will play a head-to-head match with Admiral Brown to access the 16th final, an instance in which Boca is already waiting.
The concrete thing is that there was no chemistry between Zafarana and Flores, and this is demonstrated by the statistics of the central defender, who stopped being called up by the coach from date four after consecutive falls against Ferro and San Miguel, in February. Eleven games later, the footballer decided to speak and air the friction he had in recent months.
“He had me as a substitute in three games and one with San Miguel. I played a bad game, but what he did to me is not justified. During the week I went to ask him what I did to go from being a starter to not even being called up and the answer was quite superb. From a guy who looks down on you,” Zafarana said in an explosive interview with The Gazette of Tucuman.
Zafarana told what the dialogue with Flores was like: “‘I’m going to separate you. I’m going to let you reconsider what you’ve done.’ That was the response I received and that’s why we exchanged words, the response was not what I expected. I preferred him to tell me why he didn’t bother me, but that’s what he did”.
“I suffered total mistreatment,” said the defender, who in turn had to be sidelined due to a tendon problem. “He sent to talk to the leaders, he removed me from the squad and now the glass has overflowed. Instead of being worried about the game that the boys are going to play on Wednesday, he sent to say that I should not train with the boys from the League. He doesn’t seem like a good person to me, nor a good person.“complained the footballer, outraged at not being able to train with Santo’s alternative team.
The conversation between Zafarana and La Gaceta was increasing in temperature, and in one of the sections the former Porve, Merlo and Urquiza referred to the young coach’s ways: “He thinks he can do everything. He thinks he is a doctor or a kinesiologist and He thinks about medicine. He wants to speed up the players’ recoveries. He wants to tell the player what to eat. He has his assistants as servants. He sends them to look for the balls, while he stays seated. “Those are things that we see every day in the complex,” said the man from Sarandí. And he added: “Neither the club employees nor the players want it. “It’s something that sooner or later is going to explode.”
Flores, 44, carries the privilege and at the same time the stigma of having worked under the wing of Marcelo Bielsa for much of his career. And the name of the Fool also appears in the mouth of Zafarana, who continued shooting at him against his ex? DT.
“You can be a boss, but not in that way. You have to try to lead, especially in a football team. You can’t boss everyone around and stay having a coffee. (Marcelo) Bielsa there is only one and this man the only thing he did was translate what he spoke. If you think that this way you are going to improve in sports, I think it is not the way,” Zafarana complained in La Gaceta.
It is a fact that the footballer will try to leave the “surgeon” club during the next transfer window, which will begin once the date ends on the 19th and will last until June 27. One thing is known, Zafarana will not have a good memory of the Translator: ““He didn’t leave me anything in sports, he just taught me what it’s like to lie to a player.”
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