2024-07-18 20:02:06
Independiente Santa Fe made its debut in the Colombian championship with a 2-1 victory over Deportivo Pasto at the Nemesio Camacho El Campín stadium in Bogotá, where it lost the chance to win the tenth star for the Lions last June against Atlético Bucaramanga.
Elvis Perlaza, the team’s full-back, spoke after the match and lashed out at Pasto’s technical director, our well-known Gustaco Florentín, for having addressed him with rude and racist words. “He called me a son of a bitch, get up, black faggot…” insults to which he responded with class: “you have to set an example, you have to respect.”
However, he said that in the midst of his anger he had to control himself, because it could very possibly bring personal and group sanctions, but he did not deny the desire he had at the time to return the insults with a punch: “The truth is that it made me mad and I thought about it so as not to harm the team, but I wanted to hit him… that cannot stay on the court. You have to put up with it and carry on because there is no other way.”
The altercation between the two men occurred as soon as the second half began. Around minute 48, when Perlaza fell on the area designated for the team from Nariño, it seems that at that moment, the Uruguayan coach Gustavo Florentín said some words that the player did not like, which sparked the altercation.
Pasto’s substitute goalkeeper, Diego Martínez, was the first to try to separate them, and then Daniel Moreno, who knows the player well since he has already been his teammate, intervened. However, this was not enough and Pablo Peirano, coach of the capital team, came to the defense of his pupil, until the center Edilson Ariza, warned Perlaza and the two coaches.
At the press conference, neither of the two coaches wanted to speak in depth about the issue, but Florentín assured that everything that happens on the pitch does not transcend and that it is a way of creating character in the players: “What happens on the field ends there. The idea is to inject character into our players, something that we lacked in the first half, the players know me in that aspect, and what happened ends there,” statements that of course cast doubt on the coach’s ethics.
2024-07-18 20:02:06