On
April 14, 2012,
the two teams from Avellaneda had faced each other for the closing tournament:
Independiente
and
Racing
.
The match was at the Libertadores de América, the
Academy
began by winning with a goal from Colombian
Teófilo Gutiérrez
.
Before the end of the first half,
Facundo Parra
scored the tie.
In the second half, the
King of Cups
would turn it around with another goal from Parra, one from
Patricio Rodríguez
and another from
Patricio Vidal
to seal the 4 to 1. Racing finished with 9 and all hell would break loose in the visiting team's locker room. At 22 minutes into the match,
Teo
would see the red card and this would cause discomfort among his teammates and ended in a fight between the Racing players.
At one point in the fight, the former Junior
pulled out a gun
and pointed it at the technical director,
Coco
Basile
.
The former coach of the
Argentine National Team
told today at noon what the event was like on the ESPN program,
F90
.
Coco
recalled that the dispute between Teo and the Independiente players came from a match for the
Summer Tournament
in which the
Academy
won and Teo hit
Gabriel Milito
with a ball .
"I grab him (Teo), with his teammates, and we tell him '
don't think about fighting because they're going to look for you and throw you out
, we have to win this game,'" Basile recalled.
Finally, in the second half,
the player from Barranquilla would be sent off
.
At the moment he arrived at the locker room, Coco said: "When he arrived I saw two of my players boxing him and they were right,
I boxed him too
, so he took the machine out of his toiletry bag and
pointed it at me
and a huge mess broke out."
The DT explained that at that moment he stopped wanting to be a coach because "
I failed in something
."
"We got off the bus and there I told my assistants 'I
have decided to quit the profession
' because I told them not to fight and they fought, they didn't give me the ball and from that moment on I quit football," says
Coco
.
At the end of the interview, Gutiérrez wrote to the former coach through
Pollo
Vignolo 's cell phone
, sending him greetings
.
"Send him a greeting, but tell him not to send any more shit," the former
Boca coach
said with a laugh .
Basile's first cycle at the
Academy
was in
1977
, then he had a second stint between
1985
and
1989
.
He returned to the Avellaneda club in
1996
until
1997
and his last cycle was between
2011
and
2012
.
In
Racing
as coach he became champion of the
Supercopa Sudamericana in 1988
, while as a player with the Avellaneda team he won the
Copa Libertadores
, the
Intercontinental
in 1967 and the
local tournament
in 1966.
His departure from the Argentine national team
16 years have passed since
Coco
Basile left the
Argentine National Team
in 2008, there was always speculation that they made a
bed
for him internally , as they say in football jargon.
The DT never spoke about the subject until last month when he answered the phone to
Fernando Niembro
on his program on
Radio Colonia
.
Coco Basile spoke about his departure from the national team.
Photo: EFE
"
Gago
was in trouble because
Mascherano
was always the starter and he wanted to play," the former coach told the commentator at that time.
Today on ESPN they asked him about the issue again and he once again threw darts at the former Boca midfielder.
"He never said them to my face. When he spoke to me he spoke softly.
That made me a little angry ,"
Coco
told
ESPN
journalists
and added that she does not regret having left because she considers "that it went well." ".
The former
Racing coach
's place would be taken by Diego Maradona and he would direct the World Cup in South Africa.