2024-07-05 05:40:29
The president of El Nacional, Marco Pazos, made a serious complaint in an interview with the program Federation Postera.
Pazos denounced an attempted bribery so that El Nacional would let him win matches in the LigaPro 2024. The head of the military team gave details about this attempt to buy matches and the amount that he would have been offered:
“Last week they came to me directly to offer us to sell El Nacional matches. This has already been reported, Liga Pro and the Joint Command are already aware of it.”
“El Nacional doesn’t lend itself to that, it’s too big an institution. We’re here to change the club, we have to eradicate this type of thing from the club.”
Regarding the amounts offered for match-fixing, Pazos said: “They offered me $40,000 per game lost, we were surprised, I had never seen anything like that in my life, but they were wrong, because it wasn’t the case with us. Remember, values are not negotiable, and this is not going to happen at El Nacional.”
This is not the first time that this type of complaint has been made in Ecuadorian football, which motivated LigaPro to create an Integrity Department dedicated to investigating these incidents.
Strong denunciation! Marco Pazos, President of @elnacionalecsays that they wanted to buy matches from the Reds. This has already been communicated to the #LigaProspoke directly with Gabriel Drouet and the issue is under investigation.
Watch it here 👉🏻 pic.twitter.com/USfZsrEYEv
— Posta Federation (@FedePostera) May 21, 2024
Source: Orbita Deportiva