2024-03-12 21:53:32
Just two days before the match, the Presidential Delegation decided to suspend the match and postpone the return of the U to the National Stadium.
This Friday, the Presidential Delegation made official the suspension of the meeting between the University of Chile and Cobresal at the National Stadium.
This situation caused various reactions, since the decision was announced just two days before the match and the tickets were completely sold.
After that, the club University of Chile He held a press conference in which the entire team and team leaders were present. In this sense, Cecilia Pérez did not hold back anything and she launched heavy artillery against Estadio Seguro.
Let us remember that the blues’ next duel is scheduled for next Saturday, February 24, where they will play at home and authorization is still pending. In this context, the leader launched forceful statements.
The statement from the University of Chile
“We continue with uncertainty. Because since we don’t know the background, one should be able to go a little further back and ask another question. Is it necessary or justified to have a Safe Stadium today?“, the former minister began by saying.
After that, he addressed the reasons behind the existence of the organization. “It is assumed that when you have Estadio Seguro It is to be able to make security plans, to be able to project and plan each match with its respective capacity to be able to guarantee that the public present in the stadiums is safe.“, he explained.
In this sense, Cecilia Pérez added: “Today it seems that we are facing an empty stadium program. Because either the capacity is lowered without any justification, or the visiting public is punished, or the game is played without an audience only with the teams, or the matches are suspended. Faced with this dilemma, what can you plan? “What can we, who have done things well long in advance, think that we can project or plan if they end up punishing us?” He pointed out.
Finally, he stated that the suspension of the University of Chile meeting was a direct punishment to the student body. “It is a punishment for the club, it is a punishment for the blue fans, it is a punishment for all the players and the coaching staff.” “They have removed the dirt so that this return to the stadium is truly a party that is dyed blue,” said Pérez.
In closing, the leader of the University of Chile maintained that “this is not a lack of experience, it is a lack of competence. The three levels that belong to the Ministry of the Interior are not capable of coordinating, they throw the ball at each other. This is not comparable with serious governments,” she concluded.
Criticism of the controversial suspension
In this instance, the team’s main reference, Marcelo Díaz, also spoke, who did not explain the reasons for suspending the duel after the team complied with all the security measures imposed by the authorities.
“They have disrespected the La U fan, many of them were traveling, they had purchased tickets. It was going to be a spectacle anyway. Even from a social point of view, the club had prepared a TEA room available to the general public, and where one person was my daughter,” the flyer questioned.
Continuing along this line, the former national team referred to how they made the abrupt decision to cancel the match valid for the first date of the National Championship.
“We look devastated, to this day we have no information. I ask you to respect the biggest club in Chile, the most important club in Chile and the most faithful club in Chile. They have overlooked us. If we want to become important again within the continent, we all have to work,” he claimed, although after the press conference they revealed that they were informed about the situation.
What did the ANFP say?
The National Professional Football Association (ANFP) He did not hide his annoyance at the drastic determination. “This meeting was scheduled by the ANFP and planned in advance by the local club, Universidad de Chilewho worked cordially with Carabineros de Chile, Estadio Seguro and the Metropolitan Regional Delegation to meet the necessary requirements“, they stated in a statement.
To which the entity added: “We believe that this resolution received today harms football and the fans. Decisions like this harm, first of all, our partner clubs, Universidad de Chile and Cobresal, but also an activity that moves millions of people. who follow our championships on television, thousands of families and children who attend the stadium, hundreds of workers, entrepreneurs, suppliers and media who make this sport their own.”
In that sense, the ANFP stated that they seek to “families can return to the stadiums, isolating criminals who dress up as fans to commit acts of violence“.