“Andate for the good of San Lorenzo”

San Lorenzo He suffers an unprecedented institutional crisis and those who suffer most are his fans. The thousands that take the new gasometer in each party, those who follow it from every corner of the country and those who live it in the distance, such as Viggo Mortensen.

It is known that the actor, famous worldwide for his role in The Lord of the RingsHe is a fan of the Boedo Club. That is why it is not surprising that it has been expressed regarding the scandal with Marcelo Morettithe president who had to ask for a license after a hidden chamber showed him in his office, supposedly charging a coima to sign a youth.

What caught the attention regarding Viggo is where his catharsis did: it was on the website of Perceval Pressthe editorial dedicated to the art he created more than 20 years ago to spread paintings, literary works and photographs.

“Moretti, Andate please, for the sake of San Lorenzo and her fans. You already did a lot of damage since you were chosen to take care of the club. Thank you, Viggo”the 66 -year -old American wrote.

Mortensen, who lived part of his childhood in Argentina and became an unconditional fan of the Barca club, is usually involved in San Lorenzo’s daily life although with a very reserved profile, helping the distance and committing himself to very specific causes.

For example, a few years ago, in the middle of Coronavirus pandemic, Viggo appeared at a gala for the San Sebastian festival wearing a shirt with the legend “You will see me return”, the request of the people of Boedo to return to the neighborhood where he was born.

Like Pope Francis, the actor born in New York is one of the main international ambassadors of the Spirit Cuervo. And every time you can manage so that San Lorenzo appears in the midst of Hollywood celebrities and is a worldwide conversation.

A year before he had done something similar when he went to the Oscar Awards gala with a San Lorenzo pin on his chest.

San Lorenzo has no respite: after the hidden chamber in which he looks at the, now, president Marcelo Moretti keeping bundles of dollars delivered by a person who asked him to signing his son in the inferiors, the effect is overwhelming: simultaneously the headquarters of La Plata Avenue and the private domicile of the holder of the club, which was not in the property.

Cash police officers accompanied by the Corps of Judicial Investigations (CIJ) were present in the club building and sought material linked to the episode that cost him the departure, for now temporary, of the presidency. At Moretti’s home in Caballito, his cell phone looked among other things.

The prosecutor Maximiliano Vence was present in the raid with the ICJ at the headquarters, where the accounting books, income records, the player of the player who allegedly joined the lower ones in exchange for 25 thousand dollars delivered by the media businesswoman María José Scottini.

After the dissemination of these images and some hours of silence, President Moretti defended himself in a television interview and the next day he appeared before justice, to make a “self-denunciation.” In addition, there were three criminal complaints: that of César Francis, opposition manager; that of Pablo García Lago, former secretary general of the club and current vocal in the Board of Directors; and the last of Néstor Ortigoza, also vocal.

At least six police officers accompanied by judicial officials were presented at the headquarters as part of the raid ordered by the Contraventional Criminal Court and Faults number 4, by Rocío López Di Muro and requested by the Prosecutor’s Office.

“We are looking for accounting and treasury books, income records, cameras, and the player’s file for which they would have paid the coima to sign it,” sources of the investigation explained to Clarín.

While that scene was repeated on social networks, the club spread the 23 concentrated by coach Miguel Ángel Russo to face Rosario Central, in a key match for the sports aspirations of the Cyclone in the championship. The football seems to be on a plane distant to the current cyclone.

In the surroundings of the Pedro Bidegain stadium of Bajo Flores, they already appeared painted that demand the resignation of the president of the club that is currently licensed. Days ago, the fans autoconvocate to the same headquarters as Friday was raided.

Following the Scandal, both the San Lorenzo Ethics Court and the Argentine Football Association (AFA) initiated an investigation while Néstor Navarro, vice president of the club based in Uruguay, interimly assumed the presidency of the institution, despite the fact that Moretti’s license still did not go through the Board of Directors.

In that sense, the head of the AFA, Claudio Tapia, -who had been invoked by Moretti by saying that he had his support -did not confirm the sayings of the licensed president, although he referred to the issue.

“On the efforts of each club I am very respectful. Each club has its president, its Board of Directors, the members vote. Sports

The delicate institutional moment that San Lorenzo is going through for the accusations against its president Marcelo Moretti adds a new leading actor: Néstor Ortigoza. The former soccer player, becoming a vowel with this management, was in charge of the club’s football department until he was running from that position. Now, with Moretti accused of receiving a coima of 25 thousand dollars to sign a youth, Ortigoza appeared before justice to denounce what until recently was an open secret in Boedo: that his conflict with the president was due to the pressures he suffered to go up or down soccer players.

“Shortly after assuming as a club manager, and having been designated for the evaluations of players that would integrate lower divisions, reservations and professional squad, Moretti approached me to speak to me by players that he wanted especially to integrate the team, highlighted alleged technical and/or physical conditions that I did not share,” says the criminal complaint filed by Ortigoza with the sponsorship of his lawyer, Federico Cabull.

And he adds: “I was struck by his support for players over others, although they were in worse physical or technical conditions; and I was expressed with emphasis when I insisted despite my negatives. Specifically the case of Donato Larrosa I remember particularly, because Moretti insisted very especially for him to go up to the main squad, to what I opposed because the lack of experience and conditions for this. From the club with intentions to expel me, taking off the way to carry out their negotiated spurious, which with my presence would never have been possible. “

In another section of the document, composed of five pages, Ortigoza gives details of the influence that Moretti sought and quotes the name of a player that the president sought to impose: “His interference in my work area – which had nothing to do with his functions of President – generated short circuits and his requests -solapadas demands- were not well received by me, nor did I make place,” says the former confinement.

Ortigoza talks about the video of the scandal and has no doubt that the money received by Moretti was a “coima” to favor certain players. And he talks about a deception to the “excited people” who paid “a donation” because no one could assure him that the player plays, and at the same time a fraud to the administration of the club.

“The truth is that money, due to the context and form that is observed that is delivered (in cash, not counting, without receipts, added to the dialogues that are heard in the background) leaves no doubt that it was a coima so that the club president will play a candidate soccer player in any of the campuses, whether lower, reserve or first soccer division, making it worth its institutional role. signed by Ortigoza.

And it closes: “From my role as a member of the Board of Directors I find myself obliged to make this complaint, with the absolute certainty that Moretti cheated the people and economically harmed the club.”