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PSG goalkeeper Keylor Navas reportedly threatened to lose matches

2021-03-16T08:31:56.468Z


A former president of the Costa Rican football federation ensures that the goalkeeper of the PSG and captain of the national team, Keylor Navas, av


Soon adulated, soon criticized.

Goalkeeper Keylor Navas, hero of the last PSG-Barcelona, ​​is accused by a former president of the Costa Rican football federation of having offered to lose three matches to achieve the dismissal of Colombian coach of Costa Rica, Jorge Luis Pinto.

"I remember that it was Keylor Navas who told me: we lose 3 matches, there is a clause which provides for this and that", declared Eduardo Li, according to statements reported by the national press.

The latter was speaking at the hearing of a libel lawsuit that Navas and two team-mates, Bryan Ruiz and Celso Borges, brought against two Costa Rican leaders for claiming that the three had plotted to get Pinto's departure.

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"The problem was such that I made the decision not to continue Pinto's contract," added Eduardo Li, stressing the existence of this clause allowing the federation to dismiss the coach.

Jorge Luis Pinto was fired and then briefly coached Honduras and the United Arab Emirates.

Navas "very surprised" by these accusations

The facts allegedly occurred after the 2014 World Cup returned to Brazil.

Costa Rica had reached the quarter-finals of the competition, a historic result for the country and for which Navas had worked hard, catapulting his international career.

The players would have complained about the behavior and the methods of Jorge Luis Pinto who had taken the reins of the selection in 2011, qualifying it for the Brazilian World Cup where the Central American team was the sensation of the tournament, finishing first of a "group. death ”with Italy, England and Uruguay and being eliminated in the quarterfinals only on penalties by the Netherlands (0-0 ap, 4-3 tab).

"We have an honor and a prestige" to defend

The trial opened on Friday with the videoconference testimony of Keylor Navas from France.

According to the local press, Navas admitted that there were disagreements with Pinto but that he was "very surprised" at the accusations.

"It is not something that came out of our mouths and it will never happen, because we have been professional footballers for many years, we have an honor and a prestige" to defend, he said, according to the newspaper Extra.

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Involved in a vast corruption scandal that affected Fifa, Eduardo Li was suspended for life by the instance in 2017. He was accused by the American justice of having in particular monetized his influence with private companies within the framework of the resale TV rights to matches of his national team.

Source: leparis

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