The beginning of the end of management Marcelo Moretti In Saint Lawrence It could be scheduled for April 22 this year, the day it aired on Channel 9 the hidden camera in which he keeps a wad of thousands of dollars in his jacket pocket in return for the alleged commitment of a youth player to the Inferiores of the Boedo Club. From then on, his figure publicly deteriorated towards the point of no return, beyond his attempts to survive by relying on the AFA for support until the acephaly that left him outside the cyclone last Tuesday. However, the truth is that the government was riddled with scandals from the start.
He multittigate Dollar was the last straw of Barça’s patience, which was filled with many controversial episodes. The picture of the President standing in the Presidential Office on Av. sits. The La Plata headquarters, which collected alleged bribes, was too strong. A license had to be applied for immediately, while the judiciary opened the investigation in two cases opened in parallel (one in the Nation and the other in CABA) for “fraudulent administration”. In fact, he was recently prosecuted in a case.
Moretti had previously played the main role various conflicts that made his leadership known throughout Argentine football in 2024. The momentum and enthusiasm that the vote support gave him in the December 2023 elections waned as the months went by, and some strong decisions began to cause internal dissent and external anger.
Already in his inaugural speech fired heavy ammunition against the previous government (by Horacio Arreceygor, but it was the epilogue of the era of Matías Lammens and Marcelo Tinelli). When the settlement process stalled, the first conflict arose with an idol: Ruben Darío Insua, whom he fired two months after taking office after signing a two-year contract.
He also fought hard with another idol like Néstor Ortigozawho was finally dismissed from the leadership of professional football after months of crossfire, loud discussions within the entire board and public criticism from one side and the other. He put Julio Lopardo in his place, but it took 45 days because he raised his voice against the AFA and also decided to fire him.
In the middle, the sad case of the fraudulent receipt sent to the leadership of Independiente Rivadavia de Mendoza when purchasing Matías Reali. Not to mention the signings of older players in the reserves (the emblematic case was that of Maximiliano Zelaya, 27 years old, son of businessman Mariano Zelaya, very close to Moretti).
Salary arrears in the professional team and payment promises not being kept were a constant. In fact, in December last year he had to sell youth players Santiago Sosa and Agustín Hausch to Defensa y Justicia in exchange for $1.7 million to pay the rest of the players.
The publication of the video condemned him socially. He was unable to return to the pitch, although he tried in the defeat to Platense in the semi-finals of the Apertura tournament, but was thrown out of the official box of the Nuevo Gasómetro by his colleagues, most of whom had already turned their backs on him. And the resignations began to pile up.
He Saint Lawrence Moretti’s was one of the many clubs affected by the case investigating the financial company Sur Finanzas, run by Ariel Vallejo and close to Claudio Tapia, who Moretti always boasted of having the support of his inner circle. In fact, the AFA Ethics Court stopped an attempt to request the president’s expulsion from the club by the court of the blue-red institution.
As far as he could tell ClarionSan Lorenzo had an open line of credit with Sur Finanzas. In the last year and a half, there have been several loan requests of varying amounts, which, according to Boedo, went directly into the club’s account and flowed out of the club’s account, mainly to pay the salaries of employees and the professional football team. Additionally, a smaller percentage of that money was allocated to paying suppliers.
Among all loans, they amount to around 1,900 million pesos. A management voice who has already resigned assures that the club has paid almost everything, although there are still outstanding debts to the finance company that would be between 200,000 and 300,000 dollars.
Moretti was already suffering from headaches on September 16, but after a ruling by Court No. 51, which found irregularities at the CD meeting that day, everything was canceled and power was returned to the president, but he could not hide the anger of the fans: in October, the manager had to flee the headquarters in a patrol car because of a protest against him.
Facing the same scenario of acephaly, Moretti re-applied for the lawsuit to the same court, which has not yet been issued. If he doesn’t do right this time, he won’t have the opportunity to take command again.
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