The selected whites said their version, according to the information revealed by Fesfut, due to their “high” economic demands. They pointed to goalkeeper Chalatenango and captain Selecta as the one who started it all
On Thursday, at a press conference, the footballers from FC Alliance, disappointed because he demanded very high prizes according to Fesfut, spoke at a press conference to express his opinion on the situation that provoked all kinds of reactions in Salvadoran fans.
The six players of the Alliance, who left the Selecta team, gave their position in this case in which Fesfut emphasized to ask for money even for the defeat.
Marvin Monterroza, Henry Romero and Rodolfo Zelaya were the speakers at the conference, which was also attended by the others involved: Juan Carlos Portillo, Jonathan Jiménez and Narciso Orellana.
In the first part of the statement, the players spoke without any room for questions from journalists. In the second block, there was an intervention of the leadership in Alba and the opportunity was given to question the media.
Marvin Monterroza, the captain of the Alliance, was the first to speak:
“We want to clarify many things, first of all we don’t have to go to the national team for money, in our club (Alianza FC) we are up to date,” said the former Metapán.
He mentioned: “We went to talk to Mr. Hugo Carrillo, not for ourselves, but for all the selected ones and we joined our captain Henry Hernández, who in another concentration after Carrillo told us what to classify , locked us in a room in the hotel we were in, also for Benji Villalobos, Ibsen Castro, Xavi García and others from 11 Deportivo. He told us, “This is an opportunity to make money. It is not possible for them to always be Hugo Carrillo to keep all the money. I will find out how much FIFA offers for the classification and we will make the figures based on this ”.
Monterroza explained that Henry presented what he had investigated. “I said it was good and we would accompany him to fix it. And he told us: “Let’s all take the eggs and if we don’t agree with what they want to offer us, let’s not accept. Otherwise, they will keep the pile of money and it is not possible for this to continue. ‘
Marvin commented that these situations are also normal when they decide to go in a group to ask for incentives and prizes. “When I was with the president, I said that we do not agree and that we will not accept. It was what everyone was already talking about and we supported it. But then Henry Hernández took a step back. Other colleagues told us that Henry was talking to the president, emphasizing that we want to jump the boat, when that didn’t happen. “
He added: “What we wanted was to join our captain, but it is not possible to have taken the step forward, the step back and to be as if we were the ones who do not want to be in the national team. Something that is not possible, because we do not need it, thank God “.
He concluded: “I feel that Don Hugo has been made to see that we do not want to be in the national team and I repeat, that we have decided to accompany our captain.”
“I never asked for money to lose games, as Alianza players I was like the garbage of the country,” said captain Alianza.
“In all the national teams in the world there are negotiations with the players, I don’t know if they did it with the intention of harming us as players or as an Alliance,” said Henry Romero, Albo’s defender.
“Everything they said about the numbers is false, we trust our captain. We detach ourselves from everything that has been said about us “, added the defender.
“What they did is something unfair, they left us in a bad way, they damaged our image, the one who turned his back on us was our captain Henry Hernández,” Romero concluded.
“I did not know why I was not in the last concentration. They told me that the captain of the national team made numbers, I told them that I was going to support them. The captain had a proposal and we just wanted to agree. By players and means, we will not move forward, “said Rodolfo” Fito “Zelaya.
“We are called to go to the national team for money, but everyone is negotiating to be, I haven’t been to meetings, but I will always support my colleagues. People talk things without knowing it, this is the evil of our football. We will get worse every day because of the players, because of the media that, in order to damage, launch news without knowing it “, added Zelaya.
“On Friday night he told me about Cobos and I told him that I will not be in the national team because I am 100% with my colleagues. We get worse every day in our football with the media and the players there “, concluded the historical striker of the national team.
For his part, Sherman Calvo, the brand’s head of the Alliance, said: “On Wednesday, we had a conviviality with the players and the first point said as management that we will respect the decision of the players whether or not we will participate in the selection. ”.
“We firmly believe in the statements made by the footballers, we fully support them, they had the right to express themselves after those remarks”, Calvo continued.
“A big problem was generated and I consider that the losers are the Salvadorans. I canceled the first call because I called Hugo Carrillo to tell him that our players are willing to go to the national team, but so far we have not received any feedback “, confirmed Pedro Hernández, vice president of Alianza.