The Argentine coach, Hector Vargas, made an x-ray of the difficult moment that the Marathon is experiencing in its economic problem. It reveals why I don’t renew some players who were emblems and had to leave, such as Allan Banegas.
Vargas explains that Olympics will continue to be a champion if there is no one to compete economically. In addition, he mentions that what he does at the club, it is very likely that another coach will not do it, because it takes a deep knowledge to make the decisions that have been made.
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Talk about the continuity of the Argentine Ryduan Palermo, which explains why he brought it even if the club did not evolve as expected. He confesses the three reinforcements he will carry and, above all, that, with what Yustin Arboleda won, they pay the four foreigners they had in this championship. Vargas spoke for Radio Cadena Voces.
How is the situation with goalkeeper Denovan Torres?
I don’t know what his contractual situation is. If you want to go, we don’t hold anyone like that here … Whoever wants to come has to make a knot to fight a championship, whoever wants to leave has every right to look for something better. If Denovan wants to leave, we will look for another option, if he wants to stay, it will always be considered. I never apologize that a player left me and we didn’t fight anything. I lost 46 footballers in the three years I have and I always fought for first place, championship and runner-up.
Players such as Wilmer and Felix Crisanto, Elmer Güity were mentioned. Are the players on the radar?
I don’t know if I need them or I doubt their ability. I had Songó in Victoria and I recommended him myself Yanuario Paz and Diego Vázquez because I was in Victoria and days later I went to Olympia. I picked up Felix Crisanto from the reserves to Victoria, because he had made his debut with Jorge Pineda and then he was sent to the reserves. I made Elmer Güity’s debut at Olympia. There are players I know, they are good, but there is the economic part. Marathón has a budget you can’t get out of, because he’s really trying to see if he can keep up with the team. Bringing in players who don’t feel comfortable didn’t help, because we brought in Mario Martínez and “Chinese” Discua that they won very well, even they wanted to earn a little more and rightly so, as in the case of Mario, and the team could not hold them back. The club reached a final and finished with 10 points over Real Spain, which now has Mario, so this is not happening due to the economic.
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What makes you feel confident that you will continue to compete for titles with what you have?
I think that if we do numbers, we are classified at CONCACAF and it is the fourth time in a row that I am here. Before I arrived, he was ranked in the sixth tournament, as when he qualified against Juticalpa with a dubious penalty. I won the top three times, I recorded a point that Marathon had not previously exceeded 38, also a reserve champion. In the work of three years, it gives me the basis that at national level the best players are Olimpia because they pay them with high salaries. Like Motagua, who has great foreigners and the rest, we have to see what we can stay, as happened with the case of Ángel Tejeda, who, with 10,000 pesos more, preferred to go to Life. There were options for Jairo Róchez who went to Real de Minas and Rony Martínez who went to Real Sociedad; They would have made us more competitive, but hey, since we don’t have that option, we have to pick up reserve champions and add more and adapt to those who can come.
Was Bruno Volpi’s departure by technical decision and what is the status of Ryduan Palermo?
One of the things I don’t agree with about the Marathon fans, because I show a little on social media and if I did it very often, I would go bitter. It seems that Marathon networks are antisocial networks. When you look at what I say: Machuca is useless, Volpi is useless, Palermo is useless, Banegas is bad … if he reached the final. The real Spain with everything it invested was 10 points below us, it did not qualify for anything. I’m looking at those social networks this week and I thought we were ashamed. It’s incredible. It should support more. The club is going through a very serious economic situation. The president of the club (Orinson Amaya) has lost half of his business, he pushes and sometimes he adjusts, you try to help. Now Orison’s father and brother have been infected with Covid-19 and are giving their lives for the team to work. There are fans who have their opinions and are from Jutiquile (Olancho), where Luis Garrido is from and do not know the reality of this team. This club, if Orison hadn’t kept it, I don’t know where it would be. You have to have the companies that Olimpia has, the banks that Motagua has, the companies that Real España has and they don’t exist here at the moment. Is not. Who doesn’t want Bengtson? But you have to have $ 12,000. I wish I had Eddie Hernandez, but you have to have $ 10,000. The Arboleda budget is what the four foreigners pay with. That’s how we fight and we don’t apologize, we fight championships. I would like to know that the fans will contribute to the club to recruit top players. Those of us who have it will do so by putting our knowledge into it and if not, we will fight offspring.
With all these fences, what can a Marathon fan expect this year?
For the same thing I’ve struggled with so far. Since I got to the Marathon, there was only one weight full of mold, and the gym had no roof or door. Now we have a gym that is the envy of the clubs in the National League. I didn’t even take money out of my bag, no, no no. There are donations. Some put a false ceiling on me, another light, another bought me some things. The president spent 300 thousand pesos on gym equipment. Maní Suazo’s office was an old, broken stretcher, now it even has a computer. The stadium was still unpainted and is now painted. The locker rooms, they were all … now they look like an MLS team and in three years we’ve been competitive. We are the most criticized of all the clubs in the National League. I hope Marathon fans will come and help the guys who are there, who are champions of the reserve tournament that was there. This is the way to help. The fan of social networks only serves to criticize, and beware, I do not generalize, there are a good number of loyal fans who are those who do not have an opinion and celebrate when things work well.
What names of players do you already have in your portfolio within your budget?
I have in mind the budget to bring three players. It does not exist in the national environment and the number of foreigners is limited. There would be three that could reach specific positions. Some will return like the left defender Adrián Ramírez who was injured, Cristian Cálix on January 16 will be fine because we will take him little by little.
What lines would be specific?
I have to have a steering wheel on the right, the above problem that took us a long time to specify, would be two. Then on the sides is “Machuca” and there is Solani, also Guevara; in the middle Luis Garrido and Kervin Arriaga. Behind us we have Techera and Moreira, who is 20 years old and has to correct mistakes. There are two others like Argueta and García of central markers who already have minutes in the first.
In front you see a little with the departure of Volpi.
That’s why I told you, both the case of Ángel Tejeda and that of Rony Martínez and Róchez are already employed. At the national level it does not exist.
Will they be Argentines?
We will see the option because we have to put them in shape by February 16th. Get used to the weather here and we’ll see if we have time.
Are you going to trust Ryduan Palermo for these six months or are you disappointed?
What’s going on and that he wants to stay. The boy is a millionaire and if he says tomorrow: I’m going to Dubai, he’s going to Dubai. It’s the truth, I really wonder if he comes back here and has the will to play. In his case, I wouldn’t be here, but he’s a boy who likes football, and his father drives in Chile and he could take it. But Palermo is also a small place that I could not bring anyone, because Discua, Mario Martínez, Espíndola left me and wanted an opportunity. It depends on him, whether he wants to leave or whether he wants to stay. I don’t think he will question a six-month contract with the team.
Or does Palermo pay to play in the Marathon?
I would like to pay at least (laughs). The friendship I have with my father gives me the opportunity to have him because financially I couldn’t. I couldn’t remember Mario Martínez, a player who gave us a lot, not to mention that it was an extraordinary period in which Orinson Amaya lost half of his business with the closing of the malls and did not it was easy to support this team.
About Palermo, from the moment you look for two attackers, I feel that you are not satisfied. He disappointed you, did you expect more from him?
Nerd. If Palermo came like Moreira, yes, but he comes from the second from Argentina, it’s like the case of Klusener from Motagua, who four years ago I wanted to bring him to Olimpia. I asked the businessman because I know the one who runs it and they asked me for a lot of money that Olimpia could not pay. If I bring someone who comes with the intention of playing and there is no stranger to complete the quota, I would be disappointed there.
I imagine that, thanks to his friendship with Martín Palermo, you must have said to him: look, Héctor, you are capable, help me train this chip in Honduras …
The idea was to train her. The other was, you know what it was; that the yellow journalist always said: Marathon is bankrupt, Discua is leaving, I’m sending Espindola a private plane; then it is said that the son of Palermo is coming. A newspaper said: “what a crisis: Palermo’s son is coming”. In short, we are changing. Even on ESPN it turned out that we are bringing Palermo’s son. This was a move that even Garrido wanted to make. We are the fifth budget of the League because with Life we are hand in hand or it is above us. The move was at the level of publicity and we gave Ryduan the opportunity to have minutes, he scored two goals and we will see if the club has the ability to pay another foreigner or if he wants to go or stay.
What projections do you make for the other championship, do you think that Olimpia will continue to win championships, you with Motagua pushing, Real Spain looking to recover?
As long as Olympia’s economic investment is maintained, it will be difficult. While they put five million and the other one million 200 thousand, it is difficult. It’s like being told you have a Corolla from 2002 and a Mercedes Benz and we’re leaving Tegucigalpa. Who will be the first and most comfortable in San Pedro Sula? You will end up in a Deserved Benz, and the end is 2020. The one with Mercedes for the variant and all. With Olimpia I was champion three times with national players, debuting for Pinto, Benguché, Pineda, Elmer Güity. Not now, they already have a five-year career. Now Olimpia’s investment at national level is scandalous, but everyone does what they want with their money.