Ricardo Ferretti, Known for his great achievements in Mexican soccer, but also for his explosive character, he was one step away from getting into a fight with a former Tigres player in a duel against América at the Azteca Stadium to the point that they had to separate them to avoid a much bigger conflict.
The above was revealed by the person involved, Israel Jiménez, who in a podcast and YouTube channel by Fernando Guajardoa, revealed that after receiving a scolding in the style of the Brazilian coach, he fired a direct shot at him to the point that other teammates had to intervene so that the blood did not reach the river.
“I had a problem with him (Ricardo Ferretti) in a game against América. He takes me out around the 40th minute and I leave angry about my performance in the game. I leave calmly, the first half ends and I go to the locker room, I take off my shin guards and my shirt. When I sit down, out of my own anger, I throw my shin guards towards where I was sitting, but the América locker room is like wood and it sounded very loud,” said the former member of the Tigres defense.
In this matter he added that: “Tuca arrived and started scolding me “Fu&a mier&a, “You’re playing like hell” and I was shocked because no one was saying anything to him. I still didn’t react and I was just ‘achis, who’s mad at you, but he continued, you could just see his mustache moving and I was screaming and screaming until I said, that’s it!’
The insults to “Tuca”
It was then that Jiménez stood up and challenged the strategistbut the timely intervention of his teammates prevented them from coming to blows, the player himself established by digging into his memories of his time under the orders of the successful and explosive coach.
“I stopped and said “well, what do you want, puñe&as”I was going to hit him, but they grabbed me between Juninho and Beto Acosta and I had words with him and he backed away and stayed silent, I think it was out of respect that I don’t know the truth, but he stayed quiet, he acted to back and everyone separated me.”
He also added that: “I remember that Jorge Torres Nilo told me ‘do not lose much for little’; “There were Lucas Lobos, Carlos Salcido, Danilinho, Juninho,” said the former feline defender who now says it calmly in his memories, but at that moment he was about to go to the ultimate consequences.
At the same time, he also said that: “I calmed down a little and Ferretti began to give the talk and at the last he says to me ‘And you Israel, if you have any problem on Monday we will solve it’ and I stopped and said ‘well once and for all’ and I went at him, but again they grabbed me then, then until later more Cold I took a bath, I didn’t return to the field and I went to the bus. “I called my dad and told him and he scolded me.”
The apologies of the person involved
Israel Jiménez, known in the Sultana del Norte as the pilot, He assured that he was now calm and had a conscience for his outburst and that he did not hesitate to apologize to the strategist, but was aware of the consequences that his outburst could have had.
“The game is over and we go to Monterrey and the next day we train. I went to talk to him in his office, but he didn’t accept me and didn’t talk to me, until the other day Lobos was the one who told me to go talk to him, I went and now he received me in his office, but he just listened to me. , he did not speak to me, nor did he turn to see me. I told him ‘excuse me, I know I ruined it and I will continue working to be the same again’, I didn’t even know what to say to him why he didn’t answer me, he didn’t even see me and he was playing on the iPad, I apologized and left the room. office,” he explained.
Jiménez also said that Ferretti’s anger lasted a few days until he met with the leaders from the locker room like at that time the Chilean naturalized Mexican Héctor Mancilla, the also naturalized Damián Álvarez, the Brazilian Juninho and Lucas Lobos.
“Until the third day, the oldest ones gather in the locker room, Héctor Mancilla, Juninho, Damián Álvarez and Lucas Lobos, where he started scolding me in front of them. He told me ‘damn, how come a player I trust wants to hit me, I can also defend myself with other things, how are you going to hit me’, and I already told him ‘excuse me, it was the fever’ and then I went to train,” he said.
Finally, the former player of the feline squad also announced that the fine for the outburst with Ferretti, It cost him no less than half a million pesos (around 25 thousand dollars), in one of the strongest economic sanctions of the team according to the degree of the violation of the conduct regulations.
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