The serious problem facing Deportivo Cali and that jeopardizes its future

Deportivo Cali is going through the worst moment in its history. He is seriously threatened with relegation and his administrative problems are also very delicate.

Deportivo Cali’s liabilities amount to 100 billion pesos and in the general assembly of the club it was approved to give powers to the executive committee to find a solution that prevents the disappearance of the club.

However, the debts worsen and again there are delays in payments to the players. According to Caracol Radio journalist Salomé Fajardo, the player Daniel Mantilla submitted his resignation due to a delay of more than 60 days.

Your permanence depends on a payment of the amounts that have not been paid, which must be done in the following 15 days. Three other players took the same step.

Acolfutpro requests suspension of Cali’s sports recognition

Now, the club faces another problem: The Colombian Association of Professional Soccer Players (Acolfutpro) requested this Wednesday from the Ministry of Sport the suspension of sports recognition.

“Cali’s delay is not from now, Cali has been behind since last year. There were already problems to do the preseason: the players did not train more because of debts. There is a structural problem here,” Carlos González Puche, executive director of Acolfutpro, told EL TIEMPO.

In the event that Mindeporte accepts the request, Deportivo Cali would not be able to continue competing in the League and in the Colombia Cup until the problems that led to that suspension are resolved.

What happened to other teams with suspended recognition

Other teams have already stopped competing in recent years and lost the points of the scheduled games, such as América and Deportivo Pereira.

The most serious case was that of Cúcuta Deportivo, which repeated the issue and was dismissed from Dimayor in November 2020. It was then readmitted in the middle of last year and relocated to B.

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