Ferdinand Niembro he is not particularly noted for his peaceful comments during a broadcast of a football match. His opinions often border on the absurd with words of a macho nature. This time, the commentator and former member of the PRO released a controversial phrase in the meeting between San Lorenzo-Arsenal, corresponding to the third date of the Professional League, which caused outrage. After the VAR took several minutes to confirm Lucas Suárez’s goal for the Sarandí team in the first half, The journalist criticized those responsible who work from the Ezeiza property and accused them of believing that the technological tool is “like a 17-year-old girl.” Unusual.
“VAR boys, don’t fall in love, please. Make the game play quickly, the play was clear. Finish it off in Ezeiza, yes?”, Niembro began expressing in a critical tone, after Arsenal scored the first goal of the game. And then, he continued with a reprehensible comparison that reveals his macho and retrograde thinking: “Be careful, I’m a defender of the VAR to death me. It is necessary in Argentine soccer. The problem is believing that she is a 17-year-old girl.”. Faced with such an out of place and meaningless statement, ESPN reporter Federico “Negro” Bulos He was speechless.
In the second part, after another controversial move that the referee Dario Herrera sanctioned a penalty for San Lorenzo for an alleged infraction against Nicolás Fernández Mercau, the sympathetic commentator of Nueva Chicago returned to the charge for the referee’s way of proceeding: “What I do not admit is that they are reviewing a play in which Herrera made a determination. If the VAR is questioning the play, he has to go see it on television.”
The rapporteur, Bulos, replied that the technological tool was not questioning the play, but was giving him the right in the decision, to which the commentator replied without hesitation: “No, because Herrera pointed to his ear and said ‘let’s hope’. After Nestor Ortigoza converted the penalty into a goal, and put the match 1-1, Niembro clarified that for him it had been an infraction from the beginning and “That later what always happens happens: the doubt, the referee, the discussion”.
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