Carlos Antonio Velez He spoke up front and in detail about his problem with Rafael Dudamel, coach of Atlético Bucaramanga, who has had him in the public opinion in recent days and incidentally said that he is tired of people talking about him. That’s why he decided to clarify the situation.
“Many have been hanging on to my image and my work for years.. Although I don’t read them, I don’t see them or listen to them and I don’t give a damn about them, I believe that I have the right to the legitimate defense of my image, reputation, good name and my work,” he began by saying.
By the way, “I’m going to finish off the raw material of these drones “They want to be famous on social networks and traditional media, adapting everything I say to their crooked interests.”
“I am going to tell you how things are on some issues in order to put an end to all the shit they throw to make themselves look pretty. Feeding the morbidity of those whose ears I do not sweeten with what they want to hear,” she stated.
Vélez and his problem with Dudamel
About the specific relationship between Carlos Antonio Velez and Rafael Dudamel, The journalist highlighted that “I had a good relationship with him until 2021. In the Copa América draw that did not take place, he made a complaint to me in front of César Farías and told me that he was defensive because he did not have players to be offensive, because I always thought that the football he plays is ultra-defensive.” .
There was even the option of working together: “On March 15, 2018 he asked me for an appointment and I attended to him. He asked me to work with us at the World Cup in Russia. I told him that I couldn’t make that decision and My boss on television is Andrea Guerrero. I told her that this topic had to be discussed with her. I do not define anyone’s exit or entry, as someone may suggest. I don’t miss anyone”.
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However, “the hinge day It was when, trying to justify a defeat in the Cup against Atlético Nacional, He took out the tablet and put on a classy show, questioning the honesty and honorability of those of us who work at WIN. because he said that since that company was owned by the same owner as Nacional, Nacional paid us”.
“WIN pays me and RCN pays me. They can verify it. I am not a National employee (…) I have character and I reacted because That is not a way to justify oneself sportingly, throwing ourselves to the lions. To the people on the street. To the Deportivo Cali fan who even believed that we induced the VAR to make decisions. No, Rafael, you were wrong.“, I make it clear.
AND “He never had the elegance and kindness to say I was wrong. There is no institutional problem here. Neither with Cali at the time nor with Bucaramanga, now. Not liking how he plays is normal, but It is an institutional problem with Mr. Dudamel because he messed with the journalist’s institution and with the Ardila Organization, making people believe something that is not true.”
“It wasn’t hard for him to say I was wrong and he never said it. (…) this is solved very easily. Mr. Dudamel says I was wrong and that’s it, the topic is over. The offense has to be reversed and I don’t want it to be done in private, this has to be done in public, also with a Tablet, if necessary”, he concluded.
In this way, Carlos Antonio Vélez made it clear that all his discomfort with Rafael Dudamel is due to the day he took out the Tablet after a match between Deportivo Cali and Atlético Nacional in which the coach spoke badly of the Win Sports journalists and said that they induced to the error to the members of the VAR.
