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What happened this Wednesday the 22nd will be a date -literally- marked with red in the Colo Colo’s 95-year history. In the head of the press room of the Monumental, the president of the concessionaire, Aníbal Mosa, announced the break between the Regency Alba and the team of players, as a result of the salary reduction plan that was intended to apply from April and considering proposals from both parties.
A Mosa affected in the mood – always so close to the main references of the team – coined phrases in that conference such as “the blood came to the river” and that “the players turned their backs on the club”, which the members of the alba template listened by streaming. In a few lines, a total break that unleashed a strategic war of knowing how to expose one side and the other.
At night and on Channel 13, the team’s leader and captain, Esteban Paredes, read a statement representing the 25 members of the Albos player corps, giving other details of the negotiation and whipping the main directors of Blanco y Negro for not acting truthfully and “exposing” white idols.
But this break in “El Cacique” comes a while ago. It was – as the teacher Gabriel García Márquez wrote – the chronicle of an announced death and if we have to go back in time, we are going to start with a key incident: the departure of Agustín Orión, which caused a wound that seems never closed, given the presence of the most important team leaders in the farewell of the Argentine goalkeeper. That was a sign of confrontation with the manager on duty, Mario Salas, and with Paredes’ famous phrase “later they will find out a lot of things”.
First big crack. The second is related to the role of the campus and its references to the social outbreak. Soccer was one of the activities affected, to such an extent that after October 18 the national tournament was terminated, beyond some skirmish for wanting to show signs of resuming the contest and the Albo squad was one of the strongest in point out that there were no conditions. At that time, the distance that was being generated between a part of the white leadership and the team bosses was already clear.
The third incident already showed that the levee was going to break. The departure of Jaime Valdés and Jorge Valdivia, two references in the dressing room and on the court, two of the players who – it was said a while ago in the halls of the Monumental – were not in the plans of the sports management, which had had differences with the technical. Valdés was shooting with everything and recently Valdivia did the same, especially against the strong dome of the albos: Mosa, Mayne-Nicholls and Espina. Those who regularly attend Macul knew and commented that in Blanco y Negro’s strategic plans there was the idea of “cleaning” the dressing room, to lower the annual budget of the campus and thus give greater strength to the “60-40” project ( run the quarry).
There is another point to take into account and it is the close relationship that Aníbal Mosa has generated with the main Albo players. He himself said on Wednesday 22: “I signed many contracts so that they would arrive at the club or improve their conditions.” He was affected, beaten and touched. He felt betrayed by what he considered his friends, but although it sounds cold and harsh, they are not, they are employees of the club and many of them, end their contract or their careers are already in the final stage. That closeness, although he wants to deny it, also passed the account to Meuse.
Colo Colo urgently needs major surgery. That is evident, concrete, but something happens in the Monumental that the last conflicts have been hard and with many injured. And this recent public brawl will also leave them and surely in abundance. This week there is a renewal in the Black and White directory. Will Mosa have the strength and desire to continue command after this historic setback? How will this distance and struggle affect you in the medium term when you resume your activity? They are all doubts that will have to be seen and verified day by day.
A few days ago it was the Colo Colo anniversary, it was a sad one, the hardest in its history or one of the most conflictive, surely on par with the bankruptcy of the club. Today’s crisis in Los Albos is a clear reflection of what was happening inside them, something that had strayed or covered up with some victories or scapegoats. It is clear that too long a round was brewing between the leaders and the squad, one that weighs and makes decisions, that today is protected and ready to give a fratricidal fight until the end. So. the blood came to the river and no one can see, for now, help to heal the bleeding white wound
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