The Argentine coach, Héctor Vargas, Made an x-ray of the difficult moment that the Marathon lives in its economic subject. It reveals why they are not renewing some players who have been emblems and have had to go as the case of Allan Banegas.
Vargas explains that Olympics he will remain a champion if no one competes with him financially. In addition, he mentions that what he does at the club, it is very likely that another coach will not do it, as a deep knowledge is needed to make the decisions that have been made.
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He talks about the continuity of the Argentine Ryduan Palermo, Who explains why he still took him to the club footballingly did not perform as expected. He confesses the three reinforcements he will bring and above all, that with what Yustin Arbreda won, they pay the four foreigners they had in this championship. Vargas spoke for Radio Cadena Veus.
How is the situation with goalkeeper Denovan Torres?
I don’t know how his contractual situation is. If you want to go, we don’t hold anyone back here anyway … If someone wants to come, they have to tie a knot to fight a championship, whoever wants to go, has every right to look for something better. If Denovan wants to go we will look for another option, if he wants to stay he will always be considered. I never make excuses that a player left me and we didn’t fight anything. I have lost 46 footballers in the three years I have and we have always fought for first place, championship and runner-up.
Have players like Wilmer and Felix Crisanto, Elmer Güity been mentioned. Are they players who are on your radar?
It’s just that I don’t know if I need them or doubt their ability. In Songo I had it in Victoria and I myself recommended it to Yanuario Paz and Diego Vázquez because I was in Victoria and days later I went to the Olympia. Félix Crisanto was booked first in Victoria because he had made his debut with Jorge Pineda and then he was sent to bookings. At Elmer Güity I made my Olympic debut. They are players I know, they are good but there is the economic part. Marathon has a budget that you can’t get out of because you’re really trying to see if you can keep up on the team. Bringing players who are not comfortable did not help, because we brought Mario Martínez and “Chinese” Discua that they won very well, even they wanted to win a little more and with all the right, as in the case of Mario, and the team could not hold them back. The club reached a final and finished 10 points above Real Spain which now has Mario, so this does not go through the economic.
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What makes you feel confident that you will continue to compete for titles with what you have?
I think if we do numbers, we are ranked in CONCACAF and it is the fourth consecutive time of what I bring here. Before I arrived, I qualified in the sixth tournament, like when I qualified against Juticalpa with a questionable penalty. I won the tip three times, I made a record of points that before Marathon did not exceed 38, also, champion with reserves. In the three-year work it gives me the basis that at the national level the best players are Olympia because it pays them with high salaries. Like Motagua who has great foreigners and the rest we have to see that we can stay, as happened to me in the case of Ángel Tejeda who for 10 thousand pesos more, preferred to go to Life. There were options for Jairo Róchez who went to Real de Mines and Rony Martínez who moved to Real Sociedad; these would have made us more competitive, but well, not having this option we need to go up the reserve champions and add more and adjust with those who can come.
The departure of Bruno Volpi was by technical decision, and how is the status of Ryduan Palermo?
One of the things I don’t like about Marathon fans, because I don’t pay much attention to social media and if I did it too often it would be bitter. Marathon networks seem to be anti-social networks. When you look at what they say: Machuca doesn’t work, Volpi doesn’t work, Palermo doesn’t work, Banegas is bad … if they reached the final. Real Spain with everything they invested was 10 points below us, they did not qualify for anything. I look at these social media this week and it seemed like we are the shame. It’s incredible. They should support more. The club is going through a very serious economic situation. The club president (Orinson Amaya) lost half of his business, pushes and sometimes settles down, one tries to help. Orison’s father and brother have now been entrusted with Covid-19 and they are giving their lives for the team to work. There are fans who think and are Jutiquile (Olancho), where Luis Garrido is from and do not know the reality of this team. This club if Orison hadn’t supported it, I don’t know where it would be. You have to have the companies that Olimpia has, the banks that Motagua has, the companies that Real Spain has and they are not here at the moment. You don’t have to. Who doesn’t want to have Bengtson? But you have to have $ 12,000. I would like to have Eddie Hernandez, but I need to have $ 10,000. Arboleda’s budget is what we pay the four foreigners. That’s how we fought and we don’t make excuses, we fight championships. I would like to know that the fans would contribute to the club to hire level players. Those of us who have a will do so by putting our knowledge into it and if not, we would fight descent.
With all these fences, what can the Marathon fan expect this year?
For the same thing we have fought so far. Since I got to Marathon, there was only one weight that is all full of mold, and the gym had no roof or door. We now have a gym that is the envy of National League clubs. It’s not that I took money out of my bag either, no, no no. They are donations. Some put the fake sky on me, another light, another bought me some things. The president spent 300,000 pesos on gym equipment. Maní Suazo’s office was an old, broken bunk, now it has a computer. The stadium was completely unpainted and is now painted. The locker rooms, they were all … now they look like an MLS team and in three years we’ve been competitive. We are the most criticized of all the clubs in the National League. Hopefully the Marathon fans will come forward and help the guys who are there who are champions of the booking tournament that was there. This is the way to help. The social media fan only serves to criticize, and beware, I don’t generalize, there are a fair amount of loyal fans who are the ones who don’t think and celebrate when things are going well.
What player names do you already have in your folder within the budget?
I have the head and the budget to bring in three players. In the national environment there is no and the share of foreigners is limited. There would be three that could reach specific places. Some will return as the left winger Adrián Ramírez who was injured, Cristian Cálix on January 16 will be fine because we will take him soon.
Which lines would be specifically?
I have to have a steering wheel on the right, the topic above that was very difficult for us to specify, there would be two. Then on the sides is “Machuca” and is Solani, also Guevara; in the middle Luis Garrido and Kervin Arriaga. Back we have Techera and Moreira who is 20 years old and has to correct mistakes. There are two others like Argueta and García with central markers who already have minutes in the first.
In front little is seen with the exit of Volpi.
That’s why I told you, both the case of Ángel Tejeda and that of Rony Martínez and Róchez are already hired. At the national level there are none.
Will they be Argentines?
We’ll see the option because we need to get them in shape by February 16th. Get used to the weather here and let’s see if the weather gives us.
Will he trust Ryduan Palermo for those six months or did he disappoint him?
What also happens is that he wants to stay. The guy is a millionaire and if he says tomorrow: I’m going to Dubai, he’s going to Dubai. It’s the truth, even I wonder if he’s turning around here and having the will to play. I in his case would not be here, but he is a guy who likes football and his father is running in Chile and could take him there. But also Palermo is a small place that I could not take anyone because I went Discua, Mario Martínez, Espíndola and he wanted a chance. It depends on him, whether he wants to go or wants to stay. I don’t think he’s going to question a six-month contract with the team.
Or are you paying Palermo to play Marathon?
I wish I paid at least (laughs). The friendship I have with my father gives me the opportunity to have him because financially I couldn’t. I couldn’t hold back Mario Martínez who was a player who gave us a lot, or talk about it being a tremendous time where Orinson Amaya lost half of his business with the closing of the Malls and it wasn’t easy to sustain that team.
About Palermo, from the moment he is looking for two strikers, I feel dissatisfied. He has let you down, did you expect more from him?
No, no. I if Palermo came like Moreira yes, but it comes from the second of Argentina is like the case of Klusener de Motagua that four years ago I wanted to take to the Olympia. I asked the employer because I know who handles it and they asked me for a lot of silver that Olympia couldn’t afford. If I bring someone who comes with the intention of playing and there is no stranger to fill the quota, that is where I would feel disappointed.
I imagine that because of his friendship with Martín Palermo, he must have said to him: look, Héctor, you are capable, help me to form this cipote in Honduras …
The idea was to train him. The other was, you know what it was; that the yellow journalist always said: Marathon is bankrupt, they went to Discua, they send a private plane to Espíndola; then they say, the son of Palermo is coming. A newspaper put, “what a crisis: the son of Palermo is coming.” All in all, we changed. Until ESPN it came out that we were taking the son of Palermo. This was a move that even Garrido wanted to come. We are the fifth budget in the League because with Life we are hand in hand or it is above us. The move was at the level of publicity and we gave Ryduan the opportunity to have minutes, he has scored two goals, and we will see if the club has the ability to pay another foreigner or wants to go or stay.
What projections do you make for the other championship, do you think Olimpia will continue to win championships, you with Motagua pushing, Real Spain looking to recover?
As long as Olimpia’s economic investment is maintained it will be difficult. While they put five million and the others one million 200 thousand, it’s hard. It’s like they tell us, you have a 1 Corolla 2002 and you have a Mercedes Benz and we’re leaving Tegucigalpa. Who will arrive first and most comfortably in San Pedro Sula? You arrive in a Merecedes Benz, and the finish is 2020. What Mercedes has for the variant and all. Olimpia and I were champions three times with national players making their debut in Pinto, Benguché, Pineda, Elmer Güity. Not now, they already have a five-year career. Now Olimpia’s investment nationwide is outrageous, but everyone does with their money what they want.