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The controversy still lives on in Colombian Professional Soccer for the venue where the match between Deportes Tolima and Junior de Barranquilla will be played for the return of the quarterfinals of the BetPlay Dimayor League 2020.
And it is that at the beginning of the week it was reported that the ‘pijao’ box was not going to become official as a local at the Manuel Murillo Toro stadium in Ibagué because it supposedly did not receive the endorsement to use it due to some remodeling that the stage is being subjected .
Given the above, Tolima asked Dimayor and received authorization to take the game to the city of Bogotá and play it at the Metropolitan Stadium of Techo.
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This determination generated the reaction of Junior from Barranquilla, who at first threatened not to appear, but in the afternoon of this Friday it was reported that he would travel to face the game, but on the condition that Dimayor bear the expenses of a charter flight.
Due to all the confusion generated, Alejandro Ortiz, manager of the Municipal Institute for Sports and Recreation of Ibagué, clarified in dialogue with Antena 2 Cali the position of the administration of the capital of the department of Tolima and also made an invitation to the team ‘Pijao’ to change his decision and play for Manuel Murillo Toro.
“The municipal administration, headed by Mayor Andrés Hurtado, has all the disposition to carry out the match between Tolima and Junior in the ‘musical city of Colombia’. We are making some improvements in the stadium since it is postulated for the South American sub 20 in the month of February and that is why there is a demand from Conmebol for which the western part is being intervened, issue of bathrooms and dressing rooms, “he said.
