Efrain Juarez Mexican coach of Atlético Nacional de Colombia will not be able to complain about support, since the president of the team, the legal department of the Purslane team and 15 million fans gave him the vote of confidence in the legal problem he faces due to his excessive celebrations.
As will be remembered, Juárez got into trouble after a Medellín judge imposed a three- to five-year suspension on him from entering a stadium in Colombia as a result of the excessive celebrations he carried out after his team beat Independiente de Medellín in the Colombia Cup.
From there, significant events were unleashed against the Aztec strategist.since he was arrested by the police of that Colombian town and presented before the authorities to respond to his behavior that generated several outbreaks of violence, both inside and in the stands of the Independiente de Medellín house.
presidential support
Faced with these facts, the president of Atlético Nacional Sebastián Arangor in an interview for the Mediotiempo portal of Mexico, he came out in defense of his strategist and seemed surprised by this very lapidary sanction, since he judged this type of celebrations to be normal in football and for that reason he accused the corresponding authorities of persecution against the Mexican coach.
“I think we are making a mistake in the way we judge certain normal actions here.” in football and we are generally returning to different media, crossing a very thin line, which will be difficult to return to if we do not change a little the way of seeing these types of performances that are completely normal, that are part of the folklore of football “, highlighted the leader.
“It is a passionate, emotional sport, and if one starts to review all of Efraín’s actions celebrating the goals from the moment they arrived, they are the same with the public, when we also unfairly had the stadium sanctioned without an audience, they celebrated the same, without the intention of offending”
The boss of the purslanes also noted that there is concern within the team, since he believes that these events should not tarnish the great season they are having and where Efraín Juárez came to a team to regain credibility when everyone did not give a cent for his ability.
Lawyers at your service
Due to this type of events that have been unleashed against the Aztec strategist, The Atlético Nacional leader clarified that the team’s lawyers are at the disposal of its coach to be able to reach a solution and demonstrate that the sanction was excessive.
“I also want to clarify that it is a sanction that is not yet firm. We, and here I respond to you institutionally, We are accompanying you with our legal team, I am personally in charge of the issue, Let’s say trying to clarify the situation so that this sanction, which is absurd, is eliminated and Efraín can continue carrying out his work without any type of inconvenience.”
“The situation is worrying. At Atlético Nacional we don’t like to victimize ourselves We don’t even put adjectives on the topic, we simply put the facts so that everyone can rate them and from our side we do say that it is worrying because it definitely affects us sportingly not having our technical director on the field directing.”
The future of Juárez
The manager of the coffee team explained that Atlético Nacional has all its objectives focused on Efraín Juárez and hopes that this problem be resolved favorably to be able to move forward with the projects that have been outlined with the Mexican at the helm.
“Efraín is a very strong person, he is calm, he understands the institution very well in which it is. Nacional is a team that moves many passions, a team that has 15 million fans, and what happens here due to the size of the institution, has a greater impact than any other team in Colombia. Both he and we are prepared. What we are dealing with is the non-sports situation, so that he can continue concentrating on sports and sufficiently show, as was demonstrated yesterday with the 5-0 result, that we are on the right path.”
Finally, he assured that they are doing everything possible to have the serious sanction removed. imposed on Efraín and that there are legal bases to achieve it: “We insist, celebration is an inherent part of football, I do not believe that this is a reason to apply a sanction of this nature.”
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