Mexico City /
the Mexican selection who participated in the Atlanta Olympic Games 96 was financially tempted to lose one of its parties in the fair, as a group of Asian bettors offered Jorge Campos directly $ 100,000 to fix the result.
This was revealed by Luis Garcia, who was one of three senior reinforcements for the Olympic tri. Of course, the Doctor assured that he was not present in that corrupt offer and that even bring David Oteo to pretend to be him in front of the bettors.
“They offered us wool, at that time $ 100,000 for those of us who were the top three reinforcements because the bettors knew full well that they had three majors on each team. I was not at that meeting, it was Camps and David Oteo took him and said ‘you shut up and if they ask, you’re Luis Garcia’ “, explained Dr. Christian Martinoli.
“These gamblers, who I think were Filipinos, say to Camps, ‘We give you $ 100,000 to lose’, Jorge refused and they said, ‘Well, 100 thousand for you to win’. What they wanted was for us to get into this punchy murky game.
They wanted to call Luis García to testify
This act of corruption that they tried to commit with the Olympic Tri of the 96 was explained by Luis García in his weekly column in a sports newspaper, so he received calls from a then high command of the Mexican Federation of Soccer to clarify the matter.
“I remember writing this in record i Albert de la Torre wanted to send me to testify because he said this could not happen. I just said: ‘Testify your damn mother’“Don’t tell me it came to light almost 27 years later,” he said.
How was your Olympic Trio in Atlanta 96?
That Selection had a Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Oswaldo Sánchez and Pável Pardo between its ranks, in addition to those cited Garcia and Camps. The Group Stage went undefeated with a win over Italy and a draw with Ghana and South Korea, but in the Quarterfinals they were eliminated by Nigeria, who would be the Olympic Champion.
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