San Lorenzo de Almagro It suffers an unprecedented institutional crisis. In a “Telenueve complaint” journalistic report, conducted by Tomás Méndez, a record of the alleged payment of a coima of thousands of dollars that would have been made in May 2024 was issued. The president of the club, Marcelo Morettihe was recorded by a hidden camera that showed him in his office charging the transaction.
The video is observed to the maximum head of the sports institution receiving and demanding that the mother of a young man pay $ 25,000 to specify her signing in the club’s football team. At the meeting between the parties, the presence of the former official is also observed Francisco Sánchez Gaminowhich at that time was in charge of the National Directorate of Analysis and Studies of the Nation’s Cabinet Headquarters. Without counting the wad of tickets, Moretti keeps the money inside his bag. “I put you 25,000, but the boy ficháme it,” demands the woman, identified as the businesswoman María Scottini.
“There are people who want to make me a bed,” said the leader in a television report on Tyc Sports. When the report was announced, he said: “Since last year they were extorting me. I am going to present myself to law, making a self -harm for influence peddling and unfaithful administration. I will present myself to give names and tell everything before a judge. Obviously, as it has to be, because I do not have any link and guilt in this case.” He added: “The money I received, which was seen in the images, just these people went to Treasury.”
In addition to the leader’s self -duster so far there were three more criminal complaints, from the manager César Francis and vowels Pablo García Lago and Néstor Ortigoza. After these events, the questioned president requested a temporary license in his position, assuming in his replacement Néstor Navarro, vice president of the institution, who decided to resign on Monday, April 28. Finally, there were raids at the headquarters of La Plata Avenue and at the private home of Moretti, by the prosecutor Maximilian wins.
The background. Last year, the Rivadavia Independent Club denounced the Barca leadership for fraud, when setting a transfer of 1.8 million dollars for the purchase of Matías Reali. The striker signed his contract until December 2027, accompanied by Moretti and Ortigoza. However, the money never reached the Mendoza club, and the leader Daniel Vila – also shareholder of the América Group- the pass fallen when it was verified that the accreditation of the payment would not be made because the bank account of the Cyclone was not active. He had to mediate the AFA to hold the transaction and San Lorenzo pays what was agreed.
The former soccer player Néstor Ortigoza, Who was in charge of the club’s football area and was removed from those functions by Moretti, denounced that he suffered pressures to sign players. “Shortly after assuming as a club manager, and having been designated for the evaluations of players that would integrate lower divisions, reservations and professional squad, Moretti approached me to speak to me by players that he wanted especially to integrate the team, and highlighted alleged technical and/or physical conditions that I did not share,” the current vocal established in his criminal complaint.
The complaint stresses a reality that exists in Argentine football for a long time and that rarely makes it known: the “bought signings.” “The case of Donato Larrosa I remember it particularly, because Moretti insisted especially for him to go to the main squad, to which I opposed the lack of experience and conditions for it. Soon, an atmosphere began towards my image within the club with intentions to expel me, taking away from the way to carry out their negotiated spurious, which with my presence would never have been possible, ”Ortigoza explained in the five -page brief presented before justice.
In the soccer environment, this practice goes back decades and for many is practically systemic. Years ago, Ricardo Caruso Lombardi, The technical director and current candidate for Buenos Aires legislator for MID, was indicated because he would have allegedly demanded money in exchange for the interested athlete could be part of his teams. An accusation that goes back to his time as a Tigre coach.
It happened in 2010, when the footballer Camilo Angulo Villegas, He declared that his representative explained that he then DT of the Matador team asked for a sum of money to allow him to play in the team. Given the accusation, Lombardi said he was going to initiate legal actions. Then, on television, the coach showed a letter from the Colombian athlete in which he would have retracted.
The AFA, the entity that should take letters in these matters, minimizes them. Its owner, Claudio “Chiqui” Tapia, He indicated in a recent interview with TyC Sports: “Each club has its president, its Board of Directors, the members vote.
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