President Marcela Gómez confronts the alleged veto in América de Cali: ‘It did not exist on my part, nor on Catalina Usme’

Another protagonist emerged from this problem. The former player of América de Cali, Daniela Henao, reaffirmed what was said by Yoreli Rincón about the alleged vetoes in Colombian women’s soccer and accused use me from now on Marcela Gomez, the current president of the Cali team, of her departure from that club.

“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 colleagues was not the best,” he said from Portugal to Caracol Radio.

And he added: “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 show or spectacle, that she was being robbed of herself. “She didn’t feel very comfortable seeing that her classmates were shining.”

The president of América de Cali, Marcela Gómez, He spoke with EL TIEMPO about what Daniela Henao said and clarified that at no time did the veto that accused the club’s former player exist.

“As for what the player Daniel Henao said, there was never any veto, for anything, not even on the part of Catalina (Usme), neither from Andrés (Usme), nor from me. On
the contrary, she always participated during the League, in several games she was a starter, in the Copa Libertadores as well,” she stated.

And he added: “I really don’t understand her position or what she said more than 5 years ago. Obviously, she is affected by the situation that she did not play again. She and part of the learning she spoke about is that, the awareness that she should take into account training and various things that I had to do.
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In addition, he explained why Daniel Henao left the team: “Her departure was due to several learning opportunities that she had. She was involved in several situations in which she made a mistake, I spoke with her directly and I am very surprised. her position because to this day I still have her farewell message, where she thanks everything and says that she hopes to leave the doors open.

And he concluded his talk with this medium by explaining that he should have a little more awareness and flatly denied the supposed vetoes on his part, Catalina Usme or of DT Andrés Usme.

“Surely it limited in some way that she could continue at the highest level. She is a great player and she always seemed to me, but she must have a little more awareness. There was absolutely none of that (veto), not at all, I have been there since the 2016 in charge of the women’s team and I am still involved in absolutely everything, but at no time was there a situation on the part of Catalina or Andrés that prevented her from playing beyond the sporting development that she should have and the sporting decisions. and behavioral reasons that prevented him from playing,” the president said.

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