The selected whites explained their version, after the information revealed by Fesfut, for their “high” economic pretensions. They pointed to the goalkeeper of Chalatenango and captain of the Selecta as the one who started it all
This Thursday in a press conference the footballers of FC alliance, Disused to demand very high awards according to the Fesfut, They spoke at a press conference to give their views on the situation that has aroused all kinds of reactions to the Salvadoran inflatable.
The six players belonging to the Alliance, who left the call of the Selecta, gave their position in this case where Fesfut pointed out to them to ask for money even for defeat.
Marvin Monterroza, Henry Romero and Rodolfo Zelaya were the spokespersons at the conference, where the others involved also participated: Juan Carlos Portillo, Jonathan Jiménez and Narcís Orellana.
In the first part of the utterance of the footballers they spoke without any room for questions from the journalists. In the second block there was intervention by the white leadership and the opportunity was given to question the media.
Marvin Monterroza, captain of Alliance, was the first to take the floor:
“We want to clarify a lot of things, first of all we don’t need to go to the National Team for money, at our club (Alliance FC) we are up to date,” the former Metapán explained.
He pointed out: “We went to talk to Mr. Hugo Carrillo, not for us, but for all those selected and we went to meet our captain Henry Hernandez, who in another rally after Carrillo told us what he had to classify , locked us in a room in the hotel where we were, also in Benji Villalobos, Ibsen Castro, Xavi García and others from 11 Esportiu.He told us’ this is the opportunity to take money. “I’m Hugo Carrillo, stay with all the silver. I’m going to find out how much FIFA gives for classification and we’ll do the numbers based on that.”
Monterroza detailed that Henry presented to them what he had investigated. “We said he was fine and we would accompany him to catch him. And he told us like this: ‘We take the eggs all and if we don’t agree with what they want to offer us, we don’t accept. Because otherwise they will keep the pile of money and it is not possible for this to continue to happen ‘”.
Marvin commented that these situations are also normal, when they decide to go in a group to apply for incentives and rewards. “When we were with the president, we said we didn’t agree and we wouldn’t accept. It was what was already being talked about by everyone and we supported it. But then Henry Hernandez took a step back. Other colleagues told us that Henry he kept talking to the president, noting that we wanted to throw the ship at us, when that hasn’t happened. “
He added: “What we wanted was to catch our captain, but it is not possible that we made the step to the front, the back and we were left as if we were the ones who do not want to be in the selection. Something that is not possible, because we do not need it, thank God. “
He closed, “I feel like Mr. Hugo was made to look like we didn’t want to be in the National Team and I repeat, we decided to accompany our captain.”
“We have never asked for money to lose matches, as Alliance players we have been left as country rubbish,” said the Alliance captain.
“In all the national teams there are negotiations with players. I don’t know if they did it with the intention of harming us as players or as an Alliance,” said Henry Romero, defender of the white team.
“Everything they have said about numbers is false, we trust our captain. We are detached from everything that has been said about us,” the defender added.
“It’s an unfair thing they have done, they have left us in a bad position, they have damaged our image, what turned our backs on was our team captain Henry Hernández,” concluded Romero.
“I didn’t know because I wasn’t at the last rally. They told me that the national team captain had made numbers, I told them I was going to support them. The captain had a proposal and we just wanted to pick him up. means, we will not move forward, “said Rodolfo” Fito “Zelaya.
“They call us to go for money in the National Team, but everyone negotiates to be, I was not in meetings, but I always supported my teammates. People talk things without knowing, this is the evil of our football “We are going to get worse every day for the players, for the media who, in order to harm, release news without knowing it,” Zelaya added.
“On Friday night I talked about the Cobos and I told them I wasn’t going to be in the national team because I was 100% with my teammates. We get worse every day in our football with the media and the players there “, concluded the historic ram of Selection.
For his part, Sherman Calvo, head of the Alliance brand, said: “This Wednesday we had a conviviality with the players and the first point we said as leadership that we were going to respect the decision of the players whether to attend or not call for selection “.
“We firmly believe in the statements given by the footballers, we fully support them, they had the right to express themselves after these remarks,” Calvo continued.
“A big problem has been created and I consider that the losers are the Salvadorans. We canceled the first call because we called Hugo Carrillo to tell him that our players were willing to go to the National Team, but so far we have not had no feedback, “added Pedro Hernández, vice president of Alliance.