Far from the waters calming down, chapters continue to come to light after what happened after the first leg of the Concachampions quarterfinals between Inter Miami and Rayados de Monterrey, I find that the Mexicans won 2 to 1 in Florida. The heated situation experienced in the locker room after the game, in which, according to witnesses at the scene, There were strong clashes between the technical bodies of both teams and in which Lionel Messi also participated.was confirmed hours later with a viralized audio, in which the Argentine Nicolás Sánchez, collaborator of the Rayados coach, Fernando Ortiz, told in great detail what happened.
“Yeah, Messi wanted to fight me. I don’t think he wanted to hit me, because otherwise he would have hit me. He had me an inch away, he put his fist next to my face. I think he was looking for my reaction more than hitting me,” Sánchez says in the audio released. Then, he has hostile words towards Inter’s coach, Gerardo Martino. “Tata Martino throws out a sentence saying that there were still 90 minutes left… I was calm, I didn’t get angry. He turned around and started telling me everything. AND Messi appeared, who I thought had left, and he wanted to eat me raw. Security approached me, but he didn’t touch me because I didn’t react. But eThe dwarf was possessed, he had the face of the devil. ‘Who do you think you are, salami? Who did you eat?’, he told me. I don’t think he insulted me, but since I wasn’t looking at him, it was worse.”
In his recreation, Sánchez targeted Martino. “You are going to cry so much, you are going to cry so much, he told me. An idiot… I never responded to him or responded to anyone, and I’m sure they deleted all the videos because they leave them in a bad light. What they did is very serious, but it is part of the show to get the field dirty and muddy.”
Less than twenty-four hours later, Nicolás Sánchez recorded a video in which he admitted that the audio is indeed his, and gave his explanation of what happened.
“I am present with this video to talk about this audio that went viral. I could hide behind a text or a paragraph, or have the club speak for me. But I chose to record myself and use this medium to show my face and so that it can be seen that the words I am going to say come out of my mouth. And to take charge: I made the audio,” Sánchez began his speech.
The former central defender first confirmed the veracity of the viral audio and told how it was spread: “The audio where I explain in detail what happened after the game on Wednesday in the mixed zone, in the locker room, It is an audio that I sent to my inner circle, to my private environment. Far from being angry with them, it is my mistake. It had never happened to me before and it will serve as a learning experience for me.”
Finally, he apologized to the Inter Miami coach, Tata Martino, for whom he had had derogatory words in the audio. However, he ended with a justification: “I understand that when this audio is made public, many people may feel offended or touched. The coach of Inter, Gerardo Martino, is a person whom I do not know and to whom I referred in a disrespectful way, so I offer my apologies. But let him understand me: I am as Argentine as all of them and I will always defend my club.”
Rayados’ statement
At the same time, Rayados de Monterrey posted on their social networks that they filed a complaint with Concacaf for what happened after the match against Inter Miami. “We inform that we have expressed to Concacaf our official position regarding the unfortunate events that occurred in the locker room area after the match on Wednesday, April 3 in Miami. We will wait for Concacaf to take the corresponding measures,” reads the brief statement issued by the Mexican club.
“It’s something that arose there.”
Coach Fernando Ortiz He previously referred to the encounter with Lionel Messi, captain of the Florida franchise in the locker room area, and had assured that “What happened will remain there. I’m not going to talk about it. It’s something that arose there. My intentions were always the best, but we left it there,” he stressed in a brief contact with the press upon returning to Mexico with his team.
According to Mexican media, and unlike what Nicolás Sánchez made public, Ortiz and his coaching staff were approached by Messi, Tata Martino, the Spanish Jordi Alba and the Uruguayan Luis Suárez. They complained to him for some statements prior to the meeting. “The business is not going the way of Monterrey. We all know that, it’s not that I’m saying something we don’t all know. I understand the business, yes. I share it? No. “Everything that surrounds Messi can lead to making sporting and non-sporting decisions,” Ortiz had said.
However, the audio made viral by Nicolás Sánchez, far from calming the waters, shook everything up.