48 hours before the third match that Boca will face in the Professional League against Talleres de Córdoba in La Bombonera (Saturday from 8 p.m.), Darío Benedetto spoke directly with Diego Martínez to clarify what happened last week. It was public knowledge that the coach, upset by some of the footballer’s attitudes, removed him from the squad for the previous match against Central Córdoba in Santiago del Estero. With just a few weeks left to close the semester, the Pipe He met with the DT and “they clarified the scores.”
Benedetto celebrated his 34th birthday last Thursday in a private room in Puerto Madero. Along with him were other players from the Xeneize squad, most of whom were not available to perform the weekend due to injury (among them, Cristian Lema and Marcos Rojo). But what really bothered Martínez was noticing that number 9 appeared in the kinesiology room the next day and fired off a phrase: “Happy nights, sad mornings”. This version revealed by ESPN made the Gigolo exploded at a press conference.
“Why wasn’t Benedetto focused? Benedetto did not travel because I believed that the best option were those who traveled, those who were going to represent us best and who were most available for this match,” was the phrase, with a stern gesture despite the spectacular 4-2 comeback against the Railwayfrom a Martínez who marked the field for the Pipe for what will come.
As Infobae learned, the determination of Benedetto’s continuity in the club will go purely and exclusively through the coaching staff. Although there is speculation that the 9th may meet with Juan Román Riquelme to ask him to terminate the contract that links him to the Xeneize As of the end of this year, he still had not contacted anyone from the Football Council. This morning’s conversation, on good terms, was only with Martínez, who will now have to decide whether to pardon him and summon him to face Talleres, or whether to keep him out of the camps.
The coach’s position will be set today, when the list of those cited is published through social networks. If they are not among the surnames that will act before the T, Benedetto may never wear the blue and gold shirt again. It is worth saying that The center forward added just 18 minutes in the team’s last eight games (he entered against River in the duel for the quarterfinals of the League Cup last in Córdoba).
Boca has four games left before the Copa América stoppage: on Saturday they will host Talleres in La Bombonera, the following Wednesday they will define the classification for the next round of the Sudamericana against Nacional Potosí (also at home), then they will visit on Sunday the 2nd of June to Platense in Vicente López and will end against Vélez on Friday 6/14 at night in La Ribera.
THE STANCE THAT THE FOOTBALL COUNCIL WILL TAKE
Riquelme will give free will to Diego Martínez to arrange the measures he considers necessary with each of the elements of the squad. Just as, for example, it was he who decided to stop taking into account Ezequiel Bullaude, who will leave in June after the end of his loan. Until now, the DT has not notified the xeneize president that Benedetto will be separated until the end of the semester.
Benedetto’s contract expires at the end of 2024 and talks to renew it have not yet begun, something more than unlikely at this point. Pipa knows that they are running from behind due to the brilliant moments of Edinson Cavani and Miguel Merentiel, so they would head for the exit door and as they have already warned on more than one occasion that they will not play for another Argentine club, their destiny would be abroad. (Mexico or the MLS).
Will there be a chance that Benedetto will fulfill his contract until December of this year? The Council will meet with the coach once the activity is concluded to determine who will be a priority in the second half of the year and it is almost a fact that Benedetto will be included in a list of expendables. Riquelme will then have to decide if the Pipe He remains on the professional squad as a spare part or is released early to negotiate his arrival to another team on a free basis.
