There are many voices in football that have risen to criticize the fact that this sport continued in Spain this weekend despite the tragedy experienced in Albacete and the Valencian Community as a result of a devastating DANA. Players like Llorente, Fornals, Lucas Vázquez and coaches like Carlo Ancelotti recognized that it was not a dish of good taste to jump onto the playing fields in search of goals after the tragedy that has already caused at least two hundred deaths and losses that will take time to resolve. be repaired. But football didn’t stop.
this monday Julián Calero, Levante coach and who suffered DANA closely by living in the town of Chiva, one of the others affected by the water, was not so restrained and was very harsh with the decision to go ahead with the vast majority of the First and Second matches. .
«I feel a little ashamed for belonging to this professional football that has not stopped the day, (…) I think that each of us should have exerted strength so that this would not have happened.», lamented the technician. “We all agree but the associations should have carried out these initiatives and if not we would have had to exert force,” he added.
For the Madrid coach, “playing football this day It is clearly immoralbut Julián Calero can’t do anything… That’s why Vicente Moreno cried and I cried with him because his feelings touched my heart. But in the end we are part of this business, of this racket, and they tell us that we have to play… And here we go, like sheep all of us!».
“What fun are we going to have with football if we’re in mourning, dammit?” reflected the Levante coach.
Julián Calero, coach of the @LevanteUDin #ElLarguero
“Playing football this day is clearly IMMORAL… that’s why Vicente Moreno cried and I cried with him because it touched my heart”
“What fun are we going to have with football if we’re in mourning, damn?” pic.twitter.com/MDqS3FFwQK
— El Larguero (@ellarguero) November 4, 2024
In statements to the Levante media, Julián Calero explained his personal experience during DANA, acknowledging that in his case he was “very lucky.” «We went home an hour and a half earlier than normal and that took away the biggest flush of water. “He would have stopped us on the road and taken us away like all the people.”
Harsh criticism of politicians
The Levantine coach did not hesitate to point out the politicians who have managed the response to DANA and the aid to the affected towns and people. «A truly war scenario in which we lacked our army to help us… Some miserable politicians have made it so that professionals were not in our war scenario».
“I spoke with UME personnel when I went to bring medicine and they told me that they were prepared to build bridges, bring running water, to generate coordination and to try to save lives.”
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