Envigado On October 7, he filed complaints with the Prosecutor’s Office and the Dimayor because one of the players on the squad would be selling himself to fix matches and encouraging teammates to fix things that sought the relegation of the club, which is very compromised in this table: second to last with an average of 1.02.
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Ramiro Ruiz, president of Envigado, warned about the situation that has been occurring for a year and explained that the club has an internal investigation open. “We have warned about what is happening in the club, we are doing an internal investigation, we received voluntary statements from several players who say they have had calls and insinuations,” he said on Blu Radio.
Ruiz was emphatic in stating that, based on information available through sources close to the board of directors, the idea was to carry out Envigado to relegation by bettors. “We have had four technicians, three very hard semesters (…) The issue is clear to us: the objective was the reduction of Envigado. There is a goal or a penalty in the first half of the match against Bucaramanga. “It’s not just that game, but also previous games from more than a year ago,” he said.
The Envigado leadership claims to have compelling evidence, even in flagrante delicto. “There is one that we already have. He called his companions to suggest an arrangement. We did the internal verification and there are several players involved for more than a year. We have identified that the same name is always ratified, but there are others in which we have a lot of suspicion,” said Ruiz, who added that in the last year there were other unreported situations. “There are suspicions of one player, but they are investigating several more. “When the internal investigation began, several players raised their hands,” he added.
This Friday, the Investigative Unit of EL TIEMPO learned exclusively of the chats in which the player involved was convincing his teammates to fix situations in the match that was played against Atlético Bucaramanga.
Leyder Robledo would be the player involved in the rigging
According to a footballer on the team, Leyder Marcelo Robledo Palacio He contacted him to influence the outcome of the game and offered him 5 million pesos for committing a penalty.
“(…) He knows that I told him no, I didn’t receive the money for that, if it’s something about the team, no (…) He insisted, insisted and it made me angry because he came and told me, send me a video saying that you He’s going to take the penalty. I get angry with him and I start sending him just a few messages,” reads one of the chats.
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Leyder Marcelo Robledo Palacio, 22 years old, he is a player who came out of the youth ranks of Real Cartagena, his hometown team. The winger had a brief stint in 2021 with Tigres, in the second division of Colombian Professional Soccer.
He returned in 2022 to Royal Cartagena and he played there for 2 years and 6 months, until he made the leap to the first division this semester, when he landed in Antioquia to sign for Envigado last July.
For the Betplay League, Robledo has played 108 minutes spread over four games in which he has not scored a goal. During his time in the Promotion Tournament he played more than 70 games in which he scored 14 goals and gave 6 assists.
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