After controversy with Yoreli Rincón, another player accuses Catalina Usme of promoting vetoes

Rincón, who became the national team’s second all-time scorer, has not been called up again since the team’s elimination from the 2019 World Cup in France, even though she played in Europe and She was a pillar of the only women’s Copa Libertadores title that the country has, that of Atlético Huila in 2018. Yoreli then demanded that the awards be given to the team members.

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Usme, the National Team’s top scorer of all time, denied that there was a veto against Yoreli on several occasions. The most recent, shortly after the current Atlético Nacional player vented online for not having been called up for two friendlies against Venezuela.

“That is an issue that does not concern us. I have never heard of veto issues in the Federation. It is a topic that we have talked about many times and it really does not concern us. There is a coaching staff and a leadership that are the ones who in the end must choose the players and our role is just to play,” Catalina declared to Deportes openly.

“I was silent for a long time so as not to affect anyone. I feel that since I left America my career has been affected. Yes, something very peculiar happened to me in America and it is because of this same person.. This person does not represent me on the team we were on, neither at the Colombian level, nor in a country as such. He had her as a reference before arriving in America.. When I was able to live with her, at first everything was super nice, but then the energy, the aura, the way she treated her teammates was not the best,” explained Henao, who today lives in Portugal with her husband, the former Nacional player. Cristian Castro Devenish.

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“I stopped playing, supposedly because of management issues, because of decisions they made for her and for her brother who was the coach (Andrés Usme). I stopped playing, competing in professional matches and I realized that it was really because of the s
how or spectacle, that she was being robbed of herself. “She did not feel very comfortable seeing that her classmates were shining,” Henao added to Vbar Caracol.

Even the soccer player, who at 25 years old has not had a team since then, also launched an accusation against Marcela Gómez. “When I had my unjust departure from América, I had a call from the president. “She told me that they were going to announce the professional team for the next season, and that they were going to explain that my departure from the team was by my own decision and family issues, which was never the case,” he pointed.

Henao was part of the Valle team and her first team in the Women’s League was La Equidad, in 2017. She moved to Atlético de Cali in 2018 and the following year she was in América, where she played nine games, six of them as a starter, including the two finals against Independiente Medellín.

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