They accuse Grupo Pachuca of using public money for the Hall of Fame event

The great celebration of the 2024 edition of the Investiture Ceremony of the Hall of Fame of the Pachuca Group which was held at the Bicentenario Theater in León, Guanajuato, is in the midst of serious questions after the newspapers AM and Correo of the capital of the state of Guanajuato, revealed that the event was carried out with public resources.

According to the data handled by the newspaper AM, the government of Diego Sinhue Rodríguez Vallejo, who decided to support the leaders of the Pachuca Group to carry out the twelfth edition of this ceremony to be able to treat all the guests who attended the ceremony like a king. event and that reached a total of 25 million pesos (approximately one million, 245 thousand dollars).

This money was used to hold a banquet at a cost of 2.7 million pesos. where wine, furniture, decoration and even aspects of the decoration were included, leaving all attendees satisfied with the menu and drinks that were offered.

The resources also included 3.3 million pesos (approximately 164 thousand dollars) for food, flights, transfers, tourist tours and makeup for those inducted into this year’s Hall of Fame, which included international figures such as Iván Zamorano, Juan Román Riquelme and Diego Simeone.

The amount in this item would have increased considerably if figures of the stature of the German Oliver Khan, the Englishman David Beckham and the Italian Andrea Pirlo, They would have decided to attend instead of sending a video alluding to the event to thank them for the international distinction in a ceremony that was held year after year at the facilities of the Tuzo Forum in Pachuca and now they decided to choose the city of León.

The high command of the aforementioned business group, which has been accused of violating FIFA regulations regarding timeshares, after learning that both Pachuca and León will participate in the next Club World Cup to be held next year at various venues in the United States.

Since 2012, when the first investiture was held, the Pachuca Group has not spared resources to enhance the event, including organizing soccer congresses with the best at an international level. and that has left evidence of the organizational capacity of this business group.

In the first investiture, figures of the stature of Diego Armando Maradona were awardedEdson Arantes do Nascimiento “Pelé”, Johan Cruyff, Hugo Sánchez, Gerd Muller, Lotthar Mathaeus, Horacio Casarín, Ignacio Trelles, Evanivaldo Castro “Cabinho, Jorge Campos, Zinedine Zidane, Ricardo La Volpe, Claudio Suárez, Miguel Marín, among several more and that throughout all these years the Pachuca Group has gone all out to demonstrate the organizational capacity of the Mexicans.

But now these accusations cloud the origin of an event, since said money was destined for other types of matters and not to highlight the effort on the field of play of these players, especially since the transportation costs from their countries of origin and stay in Mexico has always been at the expense of the organizers.

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