TOtlético Nacional had to play this Sunday against Boyacá Chicó behind closed doors due to the fight between the bars of the green team and Junior de Barranquilla, which forced the match they played last Thursday at the Atanasio Girardot stadium to end.
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That day, Nacional was winning 2-0 when a fight began in the north stand of the stadium, which then spread to other stands and to the outskirts of the stage. The balance was 25 injured.
For this reason, the Medellín Mayor’s Office punished the club with two games behind closed doors, in addition to two additional dates for the north stand, the prohibition of the entry of banners and the closure of borders for visiting fans until the end of 2025.
Juan Felipe Aguirre’s relief after the violent acts on Thursday
After the crushing defeat of Boyacá Chicó (6-2), Juan Felipe Aguirre, Nacional defender, exploded at the press conference and referred to what happened on Thursday. He regretted the fact of having to play behind closed doors because of the misfits and invited us to reflect.
“It’s very sad to go out and see the empty stadium. We know what a festival the Athanasius is. It is very hard to know that people put football above life and at the end of the day it is just football, life is more important. “We believe that with creams we are going to heal this fierce cancer that we have been fighting for years,” Aguirre said.
He also criticized Dimayor’s request, who set up a campaign for the team captains to wear the rivals’ shirts.
“”This is not about going out and putting on the other’s shirt, banners or sanctioning the stadium. More drastic decisions must be made, because many lives were lost, many injured. “I came out with a bloody uniform because I had to intercede to help a Junior fan,” he insisted.
Aguirre regretted that violence continues to take over the stadiums. “It is sad to see that in recent times there is no longer empathy, there is no love for oneself or for one’s neighbor or for God, there is nothing. We should not let it pass with a sanction of 2 dates and then north, this… How many times have they not done that and the same thing continues to happen,” he exclaimed.
Nacional will have to play without an audience again in its next presentation at the Atanasio, either in the postponed game against Deportivo Cali, on date 7, or the game on matchday 14 against Envigado, depending on how they are scheduled by Dimayor.
In addition, he is waiting for the meeting that the championship’s Disciplinary Committee will have this Monday to define the sanctions for the two teams for Thursday’s brawl.
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