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The statements to ‘Radio La Red’, station of his country, the whistle narrated what happened to him along with his assistants on Antioquia soil on the occasion of the commitment in which Atlético Nacional won 6-0 at home over Danubio of Uruguay in the semifinals of the Libertadores that ended up winning the purslane box.
According to Espósito, he was intimidated from the moment he was in his hotel room the day before the meeting: “4 entered, one with a machine gun, they put a 9 millimeter on our head and behind them came ‘Popeye’ with a briefcase. He said: ‘There are 250,000 dollars here, take it easy and they will leave Colombia without a problem.’
And continued: “I told them that we were going to work accordingly. He took the briefcase and told us: ‘Your life here is worth nothing and in Buenos Aires it can cost us a thousand dollars, each one.’ They insisted, we said no again and they left”.
Later, he reported that the game went smoothly and that he crossed himself when Nacional was winning 3-0, because he knew that “Pablo Escobar was disguised in the stadium.”
“After the game, the same players made us signs not to open our mouths,” added Espósito.
And he concluded by saying that he left Colombia on the same plane of the Uruguayan team, with whose president he exchanged a couple of words: “The president of Danubio told me: ‘Did you have a bad time? We also'”.
Atlético Nacional qualified for the final because the first leg had been 0-0. Later, they beat Olimpia of Paraguay on penalties and won the title.
In audio, the words of Carlos Espósito about the threats of ‘Popeye’ in Copa Libertadores:
We knew stories about the Medellín Cartel and soccer. Never with as much detail as the one that Carlos Espósito, great Argentine referee, told today in Un Buen Momento (@radiolared) on the narco tightening before a game by #Liberters. It goes in 2 parts. Simply UNMISSABLE. pic.twitter.com/v9GpkZhG22
– VarskySports (@VarskySports) October 15, 2020
The second part of one of the notes of the year. Carlos Espósito, great Argentine referee, and the tightening of the Medellín Cartel before the match by #Liberters between Atlético Nacional-Danubio in 1989. Pablo Escobar, Popeye, weapons, money. The link was never told with so much detail. pic.twitter.com/JFjDOveCoR
– VarskySports (@VarskySports) October 15, 2020
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