Daniel Avellaneda
11/22/2020 15:01
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 11/22/2020 3:05 PM
Diego Milito's slam is
a break
in the recent history of Racing.
Because it is not just any son of a neighbor who announces the club's departure.
He is the idol who returned from Europe to lead the football recovery.
The captain who hung up the boots, but never stopped wearing the tape.
At the end of the day, he became a leader from the technical secretariat, the position offered by Víctor Blanco, the president with whom he does not now share
"the model and the ideas."
He will leave in December, after the elections.
A decision that had been maturing for a long time, but which he resolved to communicate 48 hours after the duel with Flamengo.
Was it inappropriate? Wasn't it the moment?
Milito himself was in charge of clarifying it on his Instagram account, the medium he chose to shake up Sunday morning.
"The moments are not chosen, they happen, and I do not speculate with a sports result, because my departure is not due to one, two or three adverse results," he emphasized at the end of his recorded speech, written in his own handwriting, that it lasted exactly 4 minutes and 26 seconds.
And if so many things can be said in such a short time, the
Prince
forcefully summarized the reasons why he decided to leave a leadership that gave him a preponderant place, but never, the keys to the club.
There is a phrase that explains everything: “I tried to convince the president to break with old structures that have been installed in the club for a long time and leave behind old policies of the 90s, which I suffered.
Those of the chicanas, the destabilization, the operations, which are self-destructive and unnecessary for our club;
I prefer another club, that of innovation, technology, work teams, good communication and connection with the world, that of growth in infrastructure;
that of forming competitive teams that fight important things and that the investment is not considered an expense ”.
Blanco always took care of the economy and the differences of opinion with Milito were more and more profound.
There were, too, in Eduardo Coudet's cycle.
While the president was concerned about not spending more money than entered the club's coffers with a more conservative policy, the manager demanded a leap in quality with a bolder look.
And if in the period 2014-2020 players from the blue and white quarry were sold for
70 million dollars
, the former striker maintained that there was enough income to bet on a higher-ranking team.
Without going any further, it exploded during the week, when he asked Jorge Rodríguez, Banfield's midfielder, and although there were efforts from the president, the price did not exceed the treasury filter: 3 million dollars.
“I have heard that I asked him to remove some leaders, which is false.
I do not have the power to do so, I only asked that they leave me alone to continue working and that each one respect their roles, "said Milito.
His differences with Miguel Jiménez, whose son Agustín represents some footballers such as Juan Cáceres, Imanol Segovia and Fabricio Domínguez, were settled in February before the Avellaneda classic.
The vice president was one of the executives who most opposed the arrival of Sebastián Beccacece.
On the other hand, positions were never approached with Adrián Fernández, president of the Amateur Football Department, nor with Roberto Torres, in charge of security.
Not even with the arrival of Miguel Gomis, the veteran coach that Diego Alberto had in the infantile and that he supported as coordinator of the lower divisions.
"He is ungrateful," they
said near the president, who suspects that Milito has political appetites.
He will not be able to stand in the December elections because he does not have enough years as a member to launch his candidacy.
It could only do so in 2025. Will it join any of the three opposition lists?
Blanco believes it is a destabilizing move.
He is offended, especially, because on Friday he called him to meet face to face and settle the differences and he only answered five minutes before posting the video on his social networks.
Milito had gotten off the plane to Tucumán, where Blanco traveled with his daughter Barbara.
It was supposed to be a good opportunity to achieve rapprochement.
It did not happen.
It was an outrage like on the Lanús court, before the quarantine.
That night, the manager did not want to share the box with the presidents.
"The greatest thing Racing has is its people," he caressed the fans, who demonstrated at the Avellaneda headquarters to ask for the idol to continue.
And he asked:
"Let's not make a mess."
It was late.
His decision had caused a seismic movement in Mozart and Corbatta.