Daniel Alberto Passarella
, Argentina's only two-time world champion, in 1978 and 1986, will attract attention this Sunday at the Monumental stadium when River Plate pays tribute to the champions who wore the club's jersey, in the two aforementioned events plus the recent one in Qatar 2022.
The
Great Captain
in Argentina 1978, former player, technical director and president of River, confirmed this week that he will attend the tribute before the match against Argentinos Juniors, for the world champions who played for the club in 1978, 1986 and 2022 -Franco Armani-, and with this the controversies were unleashed on social networks among those who
"bank"
the decision to invite him and among those who flatly reject him.
Passarella, 69,
had not appeared in public for almost a decade
and did so last Saturday at the
Sarmiento de Junín
stadium , the club where he made his professional debut in the Primera C in 1973, with the tribute for being a two-time world champion.
There he lifted the world cup, with Sarmiento's shirt and the 3 on his back.
"They treated me very well, I was surprised by his affection
," said the
Kaiser
in a note with
TyC Sports
.
"I'm going to be there on Sunday, I feel the desire to be together with my fellow champions. I think it's great and I quickly accepted when the managers called me. I didn't think about it," he said.
And he announced that he will go with "friends and family".
"My return will be a common return together with the members of the world championships that we won
," she said.
Hours later, the president of River,
Jorge Brito
, explained that the differences with the management of the mandatory Passarella "were always revealed in public."
"It is not worth commenting here what we did as soon as we arrived in the first presidency of Rodolfo D'Onofrio. That does not imply that I make myself the owner of making a decision not to invite someone who was a world champion, being a River player, " Brito said.
"Here we are inviting a world champion and not a former president
," added the manager.
What will the tribute be like?
As part of River's first home game in this Professional League, tomorrow at 7:15 p.m. against Argentinos Juniors in a remodeled Monumental that expects 83,000 people, the Millionaire will honor the world champions.
River prepares a celebration for the recent winners of the third star for the Argentine National Team in Qatar 2022:
Franco Armani
, as a player, and
Roberto Ayala
together with
Pablo Aimar
, as part of the coaching staff led by Lionel Scaloni.
In addition, the club will recognize
Norberto Alonso, Ubaldo Fillol, Oscar Ortiz and the family of Leopoldo Luque
(champions in 1978);
Nery Pumpido -will
not attend due to his duties at Conmebol-,
Oscar Ruggeri and Héctor Enrique
(champions in 1986) and
Passarella
, the only Argentinian world champion on two occasions, who left a good memory at the club as a footballer and coach, but remained marked as the president of the relegation to the B Nacional in 2011.
Since he left office in 2013, he could not return to the Monumental and the leadership of
Rodolfo D'Onofrio
(who acknowledged that he had him as an idol) initiated a case for embezzlement.
Source: Telam
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