Students and Hurricane staged an exciting duel at the beginning of date 2 of the Professional League Cup. For Zone A, Ricardo Zielinski’s team won 3-2 thanks to so many of Fernando Zuqui, Mauro Boselli and Leandro Diaz which allows him to have a perfect score at the start of the highest category of soccer in Argentina. For beyond the victory of the clickonce the meeting was over, an image was seen that caused talk and ended with the actions of Justice.
When the referee Jorge Baliño decreed the end of the game in the Tomas Adolfo Duco of Patricks Park, Mariano Andújar left his bow, jumped over the posters and went against the popular local and crossed paths with the fans of the Globe. Then the experienced archer He threw two fist bumps against the fence and then withdrew from the area.
Former Hurricane goalkeeper he received insults throughout the night from the local party. Moreover, as indicated by those present at the stadium, the fans pointed against Andújar’s father, who died in 2011, which provoked the footballer’s fury who was part of the squad of the Argentine team that got the runner-up in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
Once the images of the attitude of the Pincha referent went viral, the Prosecutor’s Office of the City of Buenos Aires acted ex officio and drew up a record of the goalkeeper. What happened to the match referee? Jorge Baliño himself clarified what happened before leaving the court and gave details of the talk he had with Andújar in the locker room after the incident.
“When the game ended I looked, I stayed in the middle of the field with my teammates and I couldn’t see what happened,” Baliño explained in dialogue with ESPN.
“Later Andújar came to the locker room, gave me the explanations of the reaction and apologized if it affected me in any way. I told him no and that he wasn’t going to make a report because I didn’t see anything. It will be a question of him with the Justice “added the judge in relation to the attitude of number 21 of Students.
After the fact, the goalkeeper used his social networks to refer to the attacks he suffered throughout the match. “Sometimes we lose sight of the fact that apart from being sports professionals we are also flesh and blood people. And although ‘the culture of football’ leads to justifying and taking as normal a lot of situations that are experienced in a stadium, I firmly believe that there should be a limit”Andújar began by saying.
“I will not justify myself, because my reaction was inappropriate. That is why yesterday I apologized to the president and vice president of Hurricane, the president and vice president of Students. To the three/four people who throughout the second half yelled barbarities at me about my deceased father, with knowledge and data from specific moments of his life, I tell you that there are limits that should not be crossed but here we are and that’s how it was. I don’t apologize to them.”added the soccer player who emerged from the Globe, who also thanked him for having spent 14 years in the Parque Patricios club.
It must be remembered that Andújar, 38, came from the lower divisions of Huracán. He made his debut in 2003 and, just two years later, he was acquired by Palermo from Italy. With the passage of time he became an emblematic soccer player for Estudiantes. As Mariano himself explained in an interview he gave to TyC Sports in 2020, he understands why Globe fans insult him every time he visits Parque Patricios.
“It was because I identified a lot with Estudiantes”, He said. And he added: “I don’t know why they piss me off, why it’s like that. I never had a word against Hurricane and they never called me to see if I wanted to come back. And she didn’t need it either because they had (Marcelo) Barovero and Marcos (Díaz) who broke it all”.
“The whistle is always heard more than the applause or indifference. I got used to it and there is nothing I can do. They are things that happen. I would have liked to go to the Huracán stadium to watch a game, I don’t see it even close, ”he concluded a couple of years ago, a scenario that was repeated again in the victory of Estudiantes.
The complete letter of Mariano Andújar after the incident in Hurricane
Sometimes we lose sight of the fact that apart from being sports professionals we are also flesh and blood people. And although “the culture of football” leads to justify and take as normal a lot of situations that are experienced in a stadium, I firmly believe that there should be a limit.
I’m not going to justify myself, because my reaction was inappropriate. That is why yesterday I apologized to the president and vice president of Hurricane, the president and vice president of Students.
I only have words of thanks to Huracán, a club that I was from when I was 7 years old until I was 21, I never had a statement against the club but in every game I went to the Duco I never finished understanding why there was so much anger towards me. But I understand it as part of what I explained above “the football culture”.
To the three/four people who throughout the second half yelled barbarities at me about my deceased father, with knowledge and data from specific moments of his life, I tell you that there are limits that should not be crossed but here we are and that’s how it was. I do not apologize to them.
Because of some, I could never hate the club that allowed me to debut in the first division and start my wonderful career in football.
Thanks to everyone who can understand my reaction.
And many thanks to the family click for so many messages of love.
Mariano Andujar
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