Football deprivation he suffered St. Lawrence In Santiago del Estero against Central Cordoba, in the round of 16 of the qualifiers, when they lost 2-1 with a very controversial refereeing by Nazareno Araza, they were already far away even though only 10 days had passed. But this time, in a club as destroyed as the one he currently heads Marcello MorettiIt’s a lot.
After a few days of rest after the loss to the Santiago team, exactly a week ago, the team met again in Ciudad Deportiva for the last phase of training before the holiday, in a match in 2026 that will require, as sport requires, participation in local tournaments, in the Copa Argentina and the Copa South America.
In that practice, there was a conversation between the team and the technical staff, who came up with the idea of dispensing with them after a few hours, but the football players wanted the management’s response to try to clear the horizon. He added: “They understood that if they did not take action, they would not receive more salaries, especially those who had the possibility of leaving. You cannot continue like this, without knowing who will be the president, delaying everything.” Nation An influential person in the club. For this reason, it was agreed that the players would train until Friday, December 5, and meet again on Saturday, 27, to open the pre-season.
At the beginning of this week, players took stronger measures: They decided not to coach themselves into debt Prizes worth $200,000 and part of the salaries that the club keeps with them (which is disproportionate to what the AFC has paid them in recent weeks). This amount It was he who was agreed to qualify for the Copa Sudamericana The decision was so clear that they would not do field work again until they were paid in full.
Meanwhile, the technical staff of DT Help Damian They redesigned the week and decided to go ahead with some medical studies, the results of which would be ready by the time they returned for the pre-season. For this reason, in the final hours of Monday, the players were asked to fast for 12 hours to undergo various laboratory tests on Tuesday. But the plan failed, and another problem revealed the organization’s operational void: The laboratory is not paidKnowing the club from which they would take the samples, they decided not to prepare everything for the studies and the tests were suspended. Late Monday, the team received a message stating that its fast had been “lifted” and was expected to train on Tuesday.
During training, the players again did not carry out any field work because 100% of the amount had not yet been paid, despite the fact that the brand worn by the club, Atomik, once again threw a rope for a small rescue operation. This time, it was 120 million pesos that helped reduce the debt on the team, extending a debt with the clothing company that already amounts to 720 million pesos, advancing the royalties that the club receives from sales of various shirts and clothing in general.
The difference between what has been paid and what has not yet been deposited, it is not known where it will come from. The club claims that it has no more money (nor anyone else to ask for), which has worsened the situation.
“What bothers me is lying,” said Miguel Ángel Russo as San Lorenzo eliminated Argentinos Juniors and reached the semi-finals of the last tournament. And that’s what everyone in San Lorenzo feels: that Marcello Moretti promises them and always fails to deliver. Logically speaking, football is the most obvious place for Barcelona’s crisis, but basketball and futsal are also experiencing critical situations: many basketball players could be fired for not paying their wages.
The San Lorenzo leadership did not pay the athletes rent and in some cases they received an eviction notice. Even the captain, Lucas Pérez, is considering leaving the organization in the face of countless pay promises made by the club (which have not been kept). Futsal, for example, will play the final on Saturday in Caballito against Vero, but has decided not to train because They have not received their salaries for three months.. And so, several other examples. last? Faced with the need to obtain new funds in any form, the club called on many fund owners to speed up their renewal under the threat of “selling them to other people because there is a waiting list,” as they confided to this method. In this way, more than $150,000 was “raised” under pressure.
In the political and leadership sphere, San Lorenzo is chaos. After several meetings with Claudio Tapia, president of the Argentine Football Association, in Ezeiza, it was agreed to move forward with a new case, after the one created on September 16 and which had been halted by justice after a request from Moretti himself.
According to La Nacion newspaper, Finally the head will become a realityBut no one dares to shout out loud that the votes will be there to ensure that. There is also no date for a board meeting: according to the AFC’s agenda, which is a practical guarantee at this point, the meeting will only be next week, once Tapia returns from the World Cup draw in the USA. An extraordinary assembly will be held, in the case of the president, and a transitional government will be determined that will run the club until there are early elections: in the halls of the headquarters on Avenida La Plata, they say it will be right after the World Cup final… in July 2026.
The situation seems unmanageable and appears irreversible in the hurricane. Meanwhile, a group of players and their coaching staff don’t know who to talk to to discuss their issues: there is an offer from Saudi Arabia for Johan Romania, and on the other hand, Hernandez and Coelho could leave a club that needs to make money as soon as possible, to relieve a lot of debt and lift more than 14 bans for four million dollars.