Riquelme's Controversial Statements: River Fan's Repudiation and the Legacy of Pablo Serrano

2023-11-23 13:14:30

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Riquelme referred to the accident that culminated in the death of Pablo Serrano and River fans repudiated his statements.

By Ubaldo Kunz

Updated on 11/23/2023 – 10:14am ART

Riquelme’s statements that generated rejection among River fans.

The death of Pablo Serrano is a sensitive issue for Mundo River. Beyond the passage of time, there are wounds that are difficult to heal and that of the millionaire fan who fell from Sivori Alta is one of them. For this reason, every time the Greatest plays at the Monumental, there are flags in the stands that remember his presence and pay tribute to him.

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In the last few hours, Pablo’s name was in the news again, but by a protagonist totally unrelated to River and its people. Juan Román Riquelme, Vice President of Boca and one of the candidates for the throne in the next elections at the Ribera club, referred to the fateful accident that Serrano suffered a few months ago at the Monumental. And his statements generated widespread rejection.

What did Riquelme say? “The political intention has been coming for a month. With the club and with my family. We played with Racing and they suspended a stand for us the day before. The next day they enabled it. A week later, a person falls on our rival’s court and dies. Within 24 hours they fully enabled it. One person died. The same lady who suspended us from the popular team enabled the entire stadium of our rival. It is very clear”he expressed in dialogue with TyC Sports.

The director of the eternal rival compared the management that took place recently when it came to enabling the River and Boca stadiums. And he used the case of Pablo Serrano to denounce certain persecution regarding his management. Without giving his own names, he attacked Prosecutor Celsa Ramírez, who was the same one who provisionally suspended the Sivori Alta del Monumental tribune to investigate what had happened in the match between El Millonario and Defensa y Justicia. Of course Riquelme omitted that detail.

The memory of Pablo Serrano, the fan who lost his life at the Monumental.

River fans came out on social media and repudiated the Boca manager’s statements. One of the first to respond was precisely Mía Serrano, the daughter of the fan who died: “Don’t even think about using my dad’s death again for politics, it’s disgusting”he replied in one of the tweets that added thousands of comments and endorsements, both from River and Boca fans, as well as from many supporters of other clubs.