2023-09-11 17:21:00
If it is not because Venezuelan Football Federation (FVF) buy tickets for about 40 journalists from the neighboring country, they would have been left without watching or covering the match against Colombia, last Thursday, September 7.
One of the ‘beneficiaries’ of the FVF’s act of generosity was Fernando Petrocelli, who was not approved for his credentials to enter the stadium as a journalist despite having requested it well in advance.
Petrocelli, which has a canal, Ruta Vinotinto, which has the most subscribers in Venezuelan soccer, said that in 20 years that he has been covering qualifying matches he had never received treatment like the one given to him by the press office of the Colombian Football Federation, in head of Carlos Lajud, which he described as “despot” e “uncompromising” on your X account (formerly Twitter).
“On Sunday we arrived in Barranquilla and on Monday, when Colombia was training, I wrote to see how the issue of credentials was going and they told me that there were only 25 places for the Venezuelan press when I think there were more than 70 of us traveling. There were people who rejected their applications. credential on Tuesday, in a total lack of respect and apart from that there was never a willingness on the part of the press department of the Colombian Football Federation to collaborate and solve the problem. “They were simply not interested, they did not feel like accrediting more people, they were very obtuse,” Petrocelli stated to Zero zone.
“I have been covering World Cup qualifiers for 20 years, it is my fourth trip to Colombia, I was in Bogotá in 2008, in Barranquilla in 2011, in Barranquilla in 2016 and now in Barranquilla again, and neither in Colombia nor in other countries had I experienced what I suffered, because it was a suffering. Thank God I broadcast in the stands and the people were super friendly, super generous, they even got excited about the broadcast, some recognized me from my time on Directv, they greeted me with great affection, but it is a risk, a broadcast from a rival team in the stands of the local team. The truth is that it was unfortunate how they handled it and how they were never willing to solve it, they never cared, they were never interested”added the renowned communicator.
Despite the bad experience, Petrocelli acknowledged that the treatment he received from the Colombian fans in the stands of the Roberto Meléndez stadium was excellent.
“I’m not going to generalize, here in Colombia people treat me wonderfully, it’s a mole, a rather unpleasant episode, at times humiliating, because I had to go to the press gallery because I had a program with Vbar Caracol and I sneaked into the press gallery, I sneaked in in quotes because I belong there, I had to be there with all my other colleagues until they saw me and took me out and then I felt very bad because I didn’t even come to watch the game, I came to work.”
In his account of X, Petrocelli asked the Colombian Football Federation not to make another mistake in the next matches as home of the Qualifiers
“I hope it doesn’t happen with the other visiting teams because the Venezuelan press was quite soft, I don’t know if they do this to the Argentinians or to the Uruguayans and they don’t make a scandal,” concluded Petrocelli.
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