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It is the journalist Christian Martinoli, who told the anecdote on another journalist’s channel as if it had been told by César Luis Menotti himself.
According to the journalist, at the end of a game in Barcelona, two men “invited” the ‘Flaco’ to go with them to Medellín because “Mr. Pablo Escobar invited him to a meal” and no one could say no, but that on Monday afternoon he would be back in Spain.
Then, Martinoli continues, they took him to the Hacienda Napoles itself, where he allegedly had a face-to-face encounter with the drug trafficker, who He had proposed that he put “whatever number he wanted” to direct Atlético Nacional.
The journalist, who also claimed that Escobar owned Nacional and Envigado, said that Menotti excused himself saying that directing Barcelona was one of the dreams he was fulfilling and therefore he could not accept, which the head of the Medellín cartel supposedly understood, but left his offer open anyway.
This version took off in recent days and was published in some international media, but this Tuesday the Argentine technician himself spoke with Caracol Radio and denied that rumor: “It is a lie what is said about me with Pablo Escobar“, he pointed.
“I don’t know how you can say that about my supposed relationship with Pablo Escobar. It’s an infamy“Added the world champion with Argentina in 1978.
In addition, Menotti explained that the only time he went to Medellín was at the invitation of Francisco Maturana and that the only Colombian team that came close to leading was Deportivo Cali, according to that station picks up.
This was the version of the Mexican journalist:
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