What seemed like great news for América de Cali vanished in a matter of a week. After the announcement of the arrival of a new investor, the club itself, headed by its largest shareholder, Tulio Gómez, announced that the process was suspended.
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“We would like to inform you that the protocols of the Comprehensive System for the Prevention and Control of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism have shown that it is impossible to continue with the negotiation,” the club said in a statement.
Eight days earlier, América had announced that the Caltac group, founded and run by the Italian-Venezuelan brothers José Antonio and Carlos Recine, was going to capitalize the club and that, depending on the amount, they could end up having the majority shareholding.
However, as the days went by, and amidst gigantic plans announced by one of Caltac’s partners, Carlos Recine, which included the construction of its own stadium, the matter faded away until negotiations were cancelled.
Tulio Gómez explained the reasons why he broke off negotiations with the Caltac group
In an interview with the Zona Libre de Humo program, Gómez gave more details about the reasons that led him to make the decision to suspend the capitalization process with Caltac.
“Before any investor comes to America, it has to be announced, because there are nine million other fans who are going to investigate it. But in the last few days there was something that I didn’t like, things like going out to fight with the fans, so let’s leave it alone,” said Gomez.
“We did not complete the deal that was due on July 30, not because he didn’t have money or was a fraud, as some say, but because of the bad atmosphere created,” Gomez insisted. “There were things I didn’t like and I abstained because there is a confidentiality agreement. That he was an ambassador from India, either.” he added.
Tulio Gomez and America
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Gómez also went on to criticise some of the press. “There are some journalists, not all of them, for whom there is only one pitch, one ball and 22 men. They don’t know what due diligence is, what a memorandum of understanding is, they go out and talk nonsense,” he said.
“There are some pseudo-journalists who only know about football and travelling around the world with free tickets, so they know nothing, they judge and talk about things they don’t know,” he said.
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