Independiente Santa Fe is in the process of turning around the final in the BetPlay League, in which the series began with a narrow defeat against Atlético Bucaramanga, in Santander, and will have to beat the Leopardos on Saturday, June 15 in El Campin.
However, There is concern in the red because three players would say goodbye for the second semesterone of them is considered a young promise for the future and is expected to join a good team, leaving a high amount of money for the players. Cardinals.
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Meanwhile, there is controversy over President Eduardo Méndez’s decision to charge a ticket price for Bucaramanga fans in Bogotá, which is considered exaggeratedly high, all due to what happened in the first leg, given the reports of alleged attacks.
Although Santa Fe is going through its best sporting moment since 2020, when it also played in a final, currently the team continues to depend on a lot of income to organize its finances, continue to emerge from its economic crisis and maintain the squad.
Added to that, There are teams that want to have some of coach Pablo Peirano’s playersespecially those young people who appeared in both 2024 and 2023, of which there are names who, apparently, would say goodbye after the definition of the title.
According to journalist Ricardo Henao, Santa Fe would say goodbye to midfielders Jhojan Torres and Yilmar Velásquez, as well as central defender David Ramírez Pisciottibecause it would be very difficult for Cardinals retain them longer due to the offers that, apparently, are on the table.
“They will be very difficult to keep, because there are already many eyes from many teams abroad on these three players,” were the words of the communicator for the magazine. The league, although it remains to be confirmed whether the players will leave in the coming days or continue for the remainder of 2024.
Prior to the second leg in the final and with the start of ticket sales, the president of Santa Fe, Eduardo Méndez, opened the controversy because he would charge a high price for tickets for the Atlético Bucaramanga fans, as he mentioned in a Interview with Snail Radio.
“I never made commitments to anyone. They said that Bucaramanga was studying the possibility of allowing people to enter. Bars with which I have no contact, sent the message to Santa Fe, that it was Friday and I had not decided. However, Santa Fe reserved a thousand tickets so that the Bucaramanga fans could enter,” said the manager.
For Eduardo Méndez, everything is due to the fact that they were charged more than what was expected in the first leg: “They treated us well, but they charged 265 thousand for the ticket of 30 and I proposed what I proposed yesterday in the meeting with the Institute, The space that was left for them is a ticket from Occidental Norte, which has a value of 265 thousand, so we are going to leave it at the maximum value.“, the most expensive in the stadium and we equate equality in the parts for all, but we are not going to be reluctant to go against the will of many.”
“That the district guarantees me that there will be nothing, that it will help with security, that it will not charge us more for the security that it puts on us.I remind you, the most expensive rent in the country is paid by Bogotá with 10% of the box office, tomorrow we have to pay around 1.2 billion between taxes and box office, plus logistics. We have to guarantee the show,” he added.
It is worth remembering that the president complained about the invasion of the field on June 8 and reported attacks: “I fell with a push, but that was not a big deal, because I am agile and I reacted and got up immediately. It was the logistics people, those people were upset because people got into the field and they lost control of the stadium. In his eagerness this happened to us, they attacked us.”
