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Argentine football has historically been targeted by its “crafty” leaders, with Julio Grondona at the helm, and many have spoken ill of the way the managers act, a situation that has been touched again in the neighboring country.
The word “bribery” is in vogue on the other side of the mountain range, because the former international referee Hector Baldassi revealed that a leader of the First Division tried to “buy” him when he was a referee, although he did not accept the money they offered him to help a team.
“Sometimes, being in the First Division, they have offered me money. In the world of football we all know each other, and I am sure that that leader who wanted to buy me and could not, then boasts of having bought you,” said the former FIFA judge to Miter radio.
On the other hand, the former World Cup referee recounted the delicate health situation he experienced last year, when he suffered a heart attack.
Baldassi said he did not accept the bribe – Getty
“It was January 22, 2020. I didn’t have time to get scared. I was in the gym when I felt a pain in my chest: I thought it was a muscle pain, and I kept training. But after taking a bath it still hurt. So I called the girl from Conmebol to ask for a doctor: there they told me it was a heart attack, “he said.
Finally, he said that “I was never afraid of dying, I am not afraid of death.”
