St. Lawrence He no longer competed in the final tournament: the team was damaged by the referee’s decisions in Central Cordoba’s 2-1 win in Santiago del Estero, and his sporting dream ended in the round of 16, after the local team’s bad penalty and the unfair sending off of Johan Romagna. He had taken the lead with a wonderful goal from Facundo Joli, but that was not enough. The players raised questions in the midst of the institutional crisis. Although the original idea still exists, which is to continue training until the fifth of this month, when the holiday begins, On Monday they decided to implement a strong non-payment measure: they did not train.
When the team gathered for practice this morning, they made the decision not to go out to the extra court at Nuevo Jasumetro. Fed up with not collecting awards and salaries due after a new unfulfilled promise to repay part of this debt this week, the footballers have made the decision not to train and have reported to Damien Ayudi, more than just a coach, and the pilot of the Storm for several months.
Just before playing against Central Cordoba, the AFC had provided San Lorenzo with an economic bailout. This was used to pay overdue salaries a few weeks ago, but there are still salary debts and local competition qualifier prizes. This is of course the responsibility of the club to pay, and the responsibility lies with the leaders. What is happening is that there is also a state of loss of leadership ability that has no end, even though Marcello Moretti remains president – on paper.
This is not the first time that football players have expressed such dissatisfaction with the situation. There have even been public statements of fatigue over the past few months, requests for taboos, and more than once they thought about not concentrating before a match in the local competition, but now that the competition is over, they feel the need to express themselves in this way.
The players, talking among themselves in the locker room on Monday, want to know what will happen politically at the club once and for all. They’ve been hearing for weeks that a board meeting will be held to try to normalize? A situation where the head could be decreed again and that would be the end of Marcello Moretti as president. But everything remains unresolved, not even after asking for it Claudio Tapia at the secret meeting organized at the AFC headquarters in Ezeiza, He asked them to unite and resolve matters once and for all. Under all these circumstances, it is so Many are thinking about leaving They will not play in 2026 in San Lorenzo.
Although FC Puedo has not received any official offer yet, the footballers who can emigrate are Johan Romania (He will manage a Saudi department), Alexis Coelho, Gaston Hernandez and Matias Reale. There are also contracts expiring on December 31: Andres Vumberjar, Emanuele Cecchini, Nery Dominguez and Ezequiel Cerruti. What is clear is that in this context, no footballer really wants to stay. As long as debt and uncertainty about leadership persist, unrest grows.