“They wanted to put us to bed and they put us to bed”

Federico Girotti I was walking this Monday night towards the bus parked at the Libertadores de América Ricardo Enrique Bochini stadium”, where shortly before Workshops had stayed eliminated from the League Cup after drawing with Independiente. The forward of the Cordoba team chewed anger and, although he initially excused himself from making statements, a minimal question was enough for him to explode definitively. “They wanted to put us to bed and they put us to bed,” she accused.

Their darts were directed towards several fronts. The refereeing team, headed by Nicolas Ramirez, was one of them. “I thought he was a serious referee,” declared the former River and San Lorenzo scorer.

However, the heaviest fell on the AFA and Pablo Tovigginotreasurer of that entity and a man close to Claudio Chiqui Tapia, who recently targeted Juan Sebastián Verón and Andrés Fassi, presidents of Estudiantes de La Plata and Talleres, respectively, for their positions regarding the landing of the Sports Joint Stock Companies (SAD) in Argentine soccer.

He had them in his head when he walked towards the bus, although at first he avoided throwing them. “It’s a shame if I speak, because they wanted to put us to bed and they put us to bed”, he suggested in passing. But when questioned, Girotti did not hesitate to retrace his steps and start shooting. “They wanted to take us out and they took us out… All the nonsense that was said and they took us out,” he accused, still without giving a name and surname to his complaint, but making it clear where he was going.

“In the first half they throw a player (Miguel Navarro) at us in a penalty that they neither claim nor realize. They had to throw the left winger (Ayrton Costa) off. They wanted us and want to knock us down for several months and today they achieved it. They took us out. “They stole our hope,” she said with an obvious sense of annoyance.

Then, he began with the proper names: “In this football that is so stained, with so many things that are said, Toviggino comes out to speak during the week… Who is Toviggino? That we, that (Juan Sebastián) Verón, that Argentine football. It seems that here the thermoheads have an advantage, and since we are an organized club, It makes them angry that we are fineand that’s how they take us out.”

“It happens in this country, doing things right is wrong. Here it is useful to be a thermohead and do things wrong. To the clubs that do things well, River, Estudiantes, us, it seems like they want to turn us around,” he lamented.

A few days ago, in a post made in XToviggino linked a note from Clarion Verón and hit Fassi. “Haha, you and another who lives more in Mexico than in Argentina, They are the mules of an idea foreign to you. Don’t forget that you need the VOTES OF THE AFA ASSEMBLY! There is no longer DNU that forces us. When the project that AFA is preparing is known, both of them will be left with their asses in the air,” warned the AFA leader. The publication led to an intervention on that same social network of Daniel Sciolicurrent head of the Ministry of Tourism, Environment and Sports of the Nation.

“Unfortunately it is like this, We come here knowing what could happen”, assured Girotti. And he set his sights on the referee: “I had Ramírez as one of the most serious referees in Argentine football. I talked to him about it, I told him ‘Nico, not us, you’re serious.’ “All the little ones went to them.”

“One of our players does something, he gets a yellow card. They charge me for an offside in my own field. They wanted to turn us around and they turned us around,” insisted the 24-year-old player from Córdoba, who scored his team’s first goal in Avellaneda.

He also issued a strong complaint against the VAR. “If you watch the Premier or the Spanish League, the VAR takes 15-20 seconds. Here it takes five or six minutes and they can calmly edit the player and put him one meter ahead. There is no seriousness and that’s how it is difficult,” he indicated. .

And he concluded: “They shit on our work. We break the bank every day so that game by game they rob us and take away our hope.” At that point in the night, which was also adverse for the local team because they could not qualify for the next round, Girotti no longer cared about hiding his anger.