06/11/2020 - 16:02
- Clarín.com
- sports
There is a shadow looming over Sergio Marchi. The general secretary of Argentinian Football Players Guild was at the center of the storm. Beyond the negotiations with the AFA, the First Division captains are not satisfied with some situations. Fundamentally, with the suppression of the declines agreed by the leaders for 2020 and 2021. And the idea of unemployment insurance that the AFA will take over does not close them either; what they want is a guarantee from the labor sources.
In that sense, this Thursday night a virtual meeting will be held through Zoom in which the need to return to training with protocols will be raised and even the possibility of requesting early elections in the guild is considered.
Javier Mascherano, Leonardo Ponzio and Fernando Gago promoted the virtual summit. Only the players who wear the tape will participate in the 24 First Division clubs. As a first step, they will agree on a central issue: that the ball begin to roll simultaneously with the rest of the categories. This show of solidarity with the Promotion also covers, as it is, the economic question. And a topic that has to do with protocols: how does a First D player go to training if he cannot use public transport, reserved for "essential" workers? "Here it is not that everyone goes to practice in an imported car," shot an experienced footballer.
In addition, the physical condition of the players is disturbed by the delay in the protocols. In the last hours, there were several who went running in Palermo, while the Godoy Cruz footballers trained in Coquimbito, a private property owned by José Mansur, boss of Tomba .
In the middle of this situation, the figure of Sebastián Vidal grows strongly . El Pollo , such is his nickname, made the lower divisions in Boca, but did not make his debut in the team that Carlos Ischia was leading at the time. With a career in the Promotion, he played in the CAI of Comodoro Rivadavia, Unión (promoted to First), Patronato, Temperley, Estudiantes de Caseros, Dock Sud and Excursionistas, where he retired last year.
Sebastián Vidal, the Chicken, in his times in Unión de Santa Fe.
Currently, he is the secretary of Sports for the Municipality of Avellaneda, whose mayor is Jorge Ferraresi, a Kirchner player from the first hour. Vidal is a member of the Cámpora and has many interests in the "social collectives". Without going any further, he was the promoter of the letter signed by more than 200 footballers in support of the Fernández-Fernández formula.
With an idea that soccer is more "democratic, popular, feminist and governed by the logic of human rights," Vidal says he has a complex view of Argentine Soccer Players.
Vidal, in 2011, when he arrived as a reinforcement to Union.
“They have done many things well and I think there are others to correct. We have a social work that could be better, but it works. The last time they worked a lot on something called the Retirement Fund. It is a kind of retirement that gives you the guild that allows former players to start and settle their lives. Among the negative things, I think we have a lot of demands, especially in the promotion with the hiring conditions and now also adding the girls in women's football with many issues to improve, "she said last year on the Eter Digital portal .