The sixth date of Colombian Professional Soccer continues with the ball rolling in the main soccer venues in the country and will be the America of Cali the one in charge of closing this day before Golden Eagles on Tuesday, August 9 at 7:30 pm This game will have a special flavor, since It will be the first of this semester of competition in which the people of Valle del Cauca will be able to perform at homethe Pascual Guerrero Stadium, after it served as the venue for the 2022 Copa América Femenina and the Under-20 World Athletics Championship.
Nevertheless, the scarlets they could return home without the presence of their main members, the fans. Due to fights, excesses and leaking of prohibited objects during the match against Deportivo Pasto on date 19 of the last tournament, the Caleños were penalized by Dimayor with the complete suspension of its seat for two dates in this BetPlay League 2022-II.
The largest shareholder of the Red Devils, Tulio Gomez, who stated that this sanction is completely unfair, expressing that the acts that occur as a visitor should be the responsibility of the locals, so they should never have been ‘punished’. In conversation with sports band, Gómez confirmed that, one day before his match against Águilas Doradas, the sanction appeal process has not yet been answered by Dimayor:
“We are waiting for the answer today because we have already been visiting for 4 dates and this sanction is for a game in Pasto. We have to change those statutes, How are we going to pay for the broken dishes of vandalism committed by fans in a stadium that we do not control?. We are waiting for the answer, that should come out today and if it doesn’t come out today we’re screwed.”
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It should be remembered that in the match for which they were sanctioned, América acted as a visitor and according to Gómez’s logic, it was Deportivo Pasto who should have received the punishments for being local. Similarly, the leader of The wick, He stated that many times the visitor ends up with empty pockets, even worse if they lose in these contests:
“If you remember that when we got promoted, the first game was in Bogotá against Equidad and we got 34,000 people. The issue is that if there is a mess or something, they don’t charge us, that does make me very indignant. How is it that we play as a visitor, the locals keep the box office, sometimes with the points and we keep the sanction, that can’t be like that”.
This controversy is one more that is added to the already questioned management of Fernando Jaramillo in charge of the Colombian soccer regulatory institution. In recent days, it was commented that the leader would be close to resigning from his position and that he would even have already given an announcement to the members of the general assembly that in 15 days he would officially leave his position.
For the moment, the Dimayor Disciplinary Commission has still not ruled on the decision to sanction América de Cali and everything is planted so that they have to play their match on the sixth date of the BetPlay League behind closed doors.
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