On that occasion, after finishing the game against Nigeria, a nurse escorted the Argentinian to take him to the area where the test would be carried out, which a few days later came back positive.
This June 27 marked the 29th anniversary of one of the most memorable days in Argentine football. On this date in 1994 Diego Maradona’s legs were cut off, Flea fans retaliate again and again . After a doping control applied in the World Cup in the United States, the fall of one of the most recognized footballers of the Albiceleste began.
And almost three decades later, the representative of the 10 at the time, Daniel Bolotnicoff, took the floor to make a series of revelations that left no one indifferent.
How did this situation come about? The picture so far is clear. After the match between Argentina and Nigeria, a nurse quickly went to where Maradona was and even took him by the arm and accompanied him throughout his journey around the pitch. . The mission seemed clear: to leave no doubt when carrying out a doping control which turned out to be positive a few days later.
Pelusa’s defense has established that Daniel Cerrini, the striker’s personal trainer, wrongly bought over-the-counter pills containing ephedrine, a banned compound in football.
“Only we supported Diego, because the AFA was aligned with FIFA Bolotnicoff recalled of the doping control retest carried out in Los Angeles, as he admitted in a dialogue with Infobae.
According to the details, four AFA representatives visited the city of the State of California: Bolotnicoff, Roberto Peidró (second team doctor), Santiago Agricol de Bianchetti (lawyer of the AFA) and David Pintado (leader of River).
According to the representative, the idea was “to strategize on what to do or what to stop doing”, but they could not achieve this because they did not have time since Maradona’s transfer went straight to the counter-test “without the ability to speak and without an AFA plan or anything”.
“At the time of the retest there was a small mark on the bottle. It didn’t seem like an irregularity, it didn’t seem like it was adulterated, but that little sign shouldn’t be there. So we asked for an intermediate room and we thought of keeping it for a long time so that later we could cancel the whole procedure. We went to a room and after twenty minutes they told us ‘come, the middle room is not accepted, and it will be solved now,’” Bolotnicoff continued.
After that, they had to return to Dallas to fight to have the test canceled because of what was written on the bottle that it shouldn’t be there. “I go to see Grondona and I ask him for Diego’s suspension report to appeal, to appeal, and then Grondona tells me no, that there is no suspension. “How come there is no suspension?” I asked him, and he was like “no, I took him off the team”. ”, all with the aim that he will not be sanctioned. “As Diego said, they cut off all our legs, because we couldn’t do anything “, he added.
Finally, he launched that Pintado had not collaborated to avoid the punishment. “The AFA has aligned with the administration, to put it bluntly. It was the AFA, FIFA and us, trying to defend the player. He obviously ended up negotiating with FIFA that if there was no talk and they took Diego out, nothing would happen. Obviously he negotiated this », concludes Daniel Bolotnicoff.
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