How did he flee? Have they been forgiven? : the stories that marked the Baptism, the indiscipline that sank La Roja before playing against Uruguay

On November 11, 2011, Luis Suárez made La Roja live a real nightmare. Uruguay won 4-0 thanks to four goals from the attacker who was defending the English shirt of Liverpool at the time. On the pitch, Claudio Borghi’s coaches seemed completely disoriented and overwhelmed. A few days before, the Everyone Team had experienced one of the most serious scandals in its history.

Jorge Valdivia, Jean Beausejour, Carlos Carmona, Gonzalo Jara and Arturo Vidal arrived at Juan Pinto Durán more than 40 minutes late and, in Bichi’s own words, in a bad state, this after attending the girl’s baptism by Mago Valdivia. “When the five players arrived, they collapsed. I went to see them in the room and did not have a pleasant impression. I don’t know what state of alcohol they were in, but obviously they didn’t look good and they couldn’t even defend themselves,” the coach said.

The former quadruple DT champion with Colo Colo has taken the decision to exclude and sanction the five footballers. A few hours after the controversial event, four of the five people involved (Arturo Vidal preferred to return to Italy, to Juventus) held a press conference at Sifup headquarters, during which they questioned Borghi’s determination .

This incident is still remembered as one of the greatest examples of bad behavior by the Reds. However, Just 11 years later, details of what happened have begun to be declassified. For example, last year, Daniela Aránguiz, ex-partner of Valdivia, told how the videos revealing this situation were leaked during the baptism of her daughter.

The woman said that It was the party participants, with their mobile phones, who captured what was happening: “When I did my daughter’s baptism, I didn’t want to do it in a public place for the same reason, I ‘ve done at home, and I know I’m good at putting, I left the mud. And from my home, from my closest entourage, came the videos of the “baptism” and of all these things that had happened to me. declared in the Zona de Estrella.

Jean Beausejour one of the actors involved in the scandal, gave an interview in 2022 in which he He admitted his fault: “I was wrong to arrive drunk and 40 minutes late for concentration. But he wasn’t drunk. If I came back to the end, I would be much more energetic in taking responsibility. I wouldn’t have held the press conference (at Sifup) and that’s it” he said to Mon.

His words caused a sensation and found a response rightly to Claudio Borghi, who fired: “They took a long time to repent. » Later, the current television commentator explained that His harsh punishments against players were not widely endorsed within the national team or at management level: “It was mine, I didn’t feel supported by almost anyone. Of course, I did not withdraw the fourth goalkeeper from the national team, nor the third confinement midfielder, but rather five starting players. And of course, nobody wanted that (…) Neither the leaders of the ANFP nor a large part of the press supported me, but there were players of the team, colleagues of the sanctioned who m have supported, and I appreciate that. “ .

In interview with Sporty In April last year, Bichi clarified that, despite the passage of time, the relationship with the protagonists of this event has never been the same: “I never spoke to some of them again. With the others, if I meet them and there is the possibility of greeting them and they wish, there is no problem, but there is not much to say. What are we going to talk about, whether I was right or not? If I have done harm or good? This everyone knows. » .