It was surprising that before the first semester of 1986, Galo Roggiero left the presidency of the Barcelona Sporting Club to make way for Heinz Moeller Freile. After 34 years of this event, the Brazilian Severino Vasconcelos, a legend in the history of the Canaries, revealed the details of this change in the directive.
The relationship with Roggiero, to whom Isidro Romero had given command of the bullfighting institution, and the staff deteriorated because it conditioned the continuity of the Chilean coach Luis Santibáñez, who had been the national champion in 1985.
Barcelona, national champion 1985. Above: Toninho Vieira (i), Carlos Luis Morales, Tulio Quinteros, Fausto Klínger, Lupo Quiñónez and Severino Vasconcelos. Below: Flavio Perlaza (i), Lorenzo Klínger, Galo Vásquez, Mauricio Argüello and Alfredo de los Santos.
“It was our condition. If Roggiero didn’t go out, people didn’t play and it was a Copa Libertadores match. Because it was not fair that if we tied or won, I would throw out coach Santibáñez. He was going to remove a DT who had been champion. This was solved, they listened to us and we played because he (Roggeiro) resigned, “he recalled during a dialogue with the channel in YouTube Produccord Films.
“It was the first time that a football club had put on pants, and not much was said. That happened and Heinz Moeller came and we qualified for the second phase, ”added Vasconcellos, who scored six goals in that edition of the Cup.
At that time, Barcelona, which in 1971 became the first tricolor cast to achieve a 0-1 victory in Argentina over Students, dubbed the Hazaña de La Plata, re-entered its name in the history of national and international football by to be the only Ecuadorian team to achieve a victory at the Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro, the temple of Brazilian soccer. It was a 1-2 victory over Bangú on July 15, 1986, with a double that was sent ‘Vasco’.
It was the second victory against the Rio de Janeiro team, because on May 1 of that year, the yellows beat them 1-0 with a spectacular free kick from Vasconcelos at the Modelo stadium. (D)
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