Benjamín Romero, current vice president of Atlético Nacional, is one of the club’s most criticized managers. The decisions to remove power from the barristas in the team and make them part of the mandate alongside Mauricio Navarro, former president of the club, and Esteban Escobar, who served as sports director, They have kept him out of the affections of the followers.
These managers made terrible hires in recent years and led the green team to distance themselves from their fans who stopped attending the stadium.
However, this Wednesday, June 12, WEEK He learned that the vice president, Benjamín Romero, is leaving the green paisa team. The decision will involve his resignation. Apparently, an offer from a foreign team to have his service would be the opportunity to say goodbye and leave a bad environment in which he is constantly threatened, his family does not feel calm in Medellín and in the club, he has gone losing power in their functions with the arrival of Sebastián Arango, the new president who has his work and trust team established with a new marketing and project director.
“He has done important work in commercial and financial matters. He probably has some offers to join another project, and if so, we keep the doors open,” said Arango, president of Nacional.
In addition to Benjamín, the departure of Esteban Escobar ´palillo´ is being prepared, who after his poor management as sports director.
What else did the president of Nacional say?
Sebastián Arango Botero spoke about the financial health that the club enjoys and the hiring. The main doubt is the arrival of the Colombian National Team goalkeeper, David Ospina.
“David Ospina is a dream, I love him as a fan, I love him as president, we love him as a coaching staff. He would be the bastion of this project. On the subject of David, we are advanced and we are going to work for that. Prudence, but both we and him are doing everything so that it can happen,” he stated.
He said that the team will receive between 8 and 9 arrivals that should occur over the course of this month.
“Jorman (Campuzano) is a homegrown player, he left the club prematurely, we have spoken with him, we would love to have him. We have to wait to see how the competition ends in Argentina. Stefan Medina, we love him, he loves us, but today it is not a possibility due to his contract with Rayados de Monterrey. Regarding Roger, he is a player that we want to bring closer, hopefully and he also joins that desire. Eder Álvarez Balanta is a player we like, but his sporting moment makes Nacional not a priority for him and today we see him distant. “We are working to find a left-footed center back,” he declared about the scaffolding of the new club,” explained the sports leader.
