Emanuel Bebelo Reynoso, once again at the center of controversy for a video that shows him with wads of money and a firearm

The erratic pace of Emanuel Reynoso by Major League Soccer (MLS) is one step away from reaching its end. To the numerous non-compliances of the Cordoba in recent years, this was added in the last hours the dissemination of a video in which he is seen joking and displaying several wads of money alongside another man brandishing a firearm. After this, everything indicates that Minnesota United, his team, will get rid of the former Talleres and Boca player.

The video that put the hitch once again in the eye of the storm was broadcast by Channel 12 of Córdoba, which received it from the hands of a resident of the Almirante Brown neighborhood, in the capital of Córdoba, who preferred to keep his identity confidential. Almirante Brown is an area bordering the Ituzaingó neighborhood, where he grew up Bebelo and to whom he returns every time he is in his province. “It already has us neighbors tired with all the friends that gather on a corner in the neighborhood. “They make disasters every time he comes,” said the man who provided the material.

Once the images were known, Jorge Sánchez del Biancothe lawyer who represented the footballer in the different judicial situations he had to face in recent years, tried to minimize the fact. “We understand that (the video) is not part of any case nor (what is seen there) constitutes a crime. It cannot be established when it was filmed. It cannot be verified in the video that it is indeed a firearm or prop. There would be no illicit attitude.”the lawyer argued on Radio Miter Córdoba, who stressed that his client “He is going to make himself available to Justice, as he always has done”.

At this time, Reynoso, 28, is in Minnesota, where he returned a little over a week ago after more than a month and a half of absence. He had traveled to Córdoba on March 25 to process his permanent residence card in the United States. and was due to rejoin at the beginning of April, but did not do so. His club arranged tickets on several flights since then, but the player did not board them until last week. That failure already seemed to have sentenced his fate.

“Reynoso’s decision to take another unjustified sabbatical year in Argentina made him persona non grata for Minnesota United. The club simply doesn’t want to talk about him.”revealed last week the Star Tribune newspaper of Minneapolis, which considered “hard to imagine that his teammates are going to be particularly lenient with him”. For now, it is out of the consideration of the coach Eric Ramsay.

So far this year, Reynoso only played 30 minutes in a match against Los Angeles FC that his team won 2-0 at home on March 16 for the fourth round of the MLS. He had missed the first three days due to an injury and then undertook that trip to Argentina that lasted much longer than expected by the leadership.

This is not the first unjustified absence of the Cordoban, who went from Boca to the Loons in September 2020 (they paid four million dollars for his token) and since then it is Designated Player of your team. Last year, he missed half the season: after spending the holidays in Córdoba, he did not return to the United States to do the preseason, he was suspended without pay in February as a result and the club even threatened to prevent him from playing until end of 2026, when his contract expires.

Finally Bebelo He rejoined the squad in May and did an outstanding job since he returned to play.. His first game of the year was on June 3, when he played the last 25 minutes of his team’s 1-1 draw with Toronto FC at Allianz Field in Saint Paul. After that, he participated in another 17 games, in which he scored 6 goals, gave 5 assists and was the creative axis of his team.

Good performances on the field do not seem enough to keep the left-hander from Córdoba at Minnesota United, with whom he has totaled 101 games, 27 goals and 29 assists in just under four years. The franchise intends to get rid of him and one of the teams interested in their services is Xolos from Tijuana.

In any case, the team that finished 16th among 18 participants in the last Mexican Clausura Tournament (and 15th in the general table of the season) will first have to decide who will be the coach to replace the fired Miguel Herrera. The main candidate is the Colombian Juan Carlos Osorio, who would be presented in the coming days. After that, reinforcements would begin to join, including Reynoso.

The conflicts that the player had in recent months with Minnesota United are not the most serious in which he was involved. The player who trained at the Barrio Ituzaingo Children’s Club (CIBI) and who joined the lower divisions of Talleres when he was 15 years old He was accused in two legal cases that have not yet been settled.

Six years ago, Bebelo He was identified as a participant in a shooting in the Ituzaingó neighborhood of Córdoba. On May 10, 2017, three days before a classic between Talleres and Belgrano at Kempes, two men got out of a Ford Fiesta and shot 19 times at three vehicles and the gate of a house.

Eugenia Pérez Moreno, the prosecutor in charge of the investigation of the incident, pointed out Reynoso as the driver of the car from which the attackers had gotten out. Although the footballer admitted having been at the scene, he denied having participated in any criminal act. Anyway, Pérez Moreno accused him as a necessary participant in the crime of firearm abuse and in August 2019 the Accusation Chamber of the Courts of Córdoba confirmed the elevation of the case to trial.

On December 6, 2021, while on vacation after completing the MLS season with Minnesota United, Reynoso was arrested after being accused of threats involving the use of a weapon and minor injuries.: A 17-year-old teenager had reported that the soccer player had hit him in the face with the butt of a gun and had threatened to kill him two days earlier during a party at the Chinatownan urban settlement in the southeast of the provincial capital.

For that fact, The midfielder was detained for nine days in Bouwer prison and regained his freedom after paying bail of one million pesos. In December 2022, Lourdes Quagliatti, investigative prosecutor of District 2 Shift 1 of the provincial capital, requested that the case be brought to trial.