To the point, after so much time waiting for this one-on-one with the president of the ANFP, Pablo Milad, of whom he has been a permanent critic, Juan Cristóbal Guarello pointed out the “humiliation” of the public asking for his departure in the final of the Under 20 World Cup, he cornered him for the frustrated organization of the 2030 World Cup, he questioned the capacity of his second, Jorge Yunge, he reminded him of the millionaire loan from Leonidas Vial, the timeshares in the clubs, and so on, until they reached the Reinaldo Rueda exit.
“Let’s talk about the selection,” Guarello conducted the dialogue, in a transmission that was nothing short of historic in Agriculture. “In the end Why did you fire Rueda without having another coach ready?”.
But immediately Milad, who was already somewhat heated, assured him that he had not kicked him out, that that was a lie. “They pressured him“, Guarello insisted, but the president of the ANFP remained firm: “If you want, let’s ask it whenever you want, both of us together, because I don’t like lies. It was never laid. “I would have received compensation.”
Something that did not convince the journalist: “There are ways to get a person out and one way is to remove the floor.”.
Milad, at that moment, began to lose patience.
“Sorry, I always supported Rueda,” he said, and before Guarello could intervene, he threw the first verbal blow. “Sorry, to explain, so we don’t leave it like that, because I always left it in the air”.
The one from The King Kong Hour defended himself: “I’m not leaving it up in the air, because the way Rueda left was very non-transparent.”.
The Chilean soccer boss then explained that his counterpart from the Colombian federation asked him for permission to negotiate with the coach, because he had learned that Rueda had experienced some problems in Chile during the pandemic and post-pandemic. Milad granted it. “And he (Rueda) decided to go to Colombia. Nobody pressured him, ever. No compensation was paid, absolutely nothing. You say I kicked him out. What evidence do you have?”.
He then assured that he had had a “very good, very close relationship” with the coach, but Guarello again sought to leave him offside. “That’s your version,” he confronted him.
“But whose version is it?” Milad asked, increasingly annoyed, and when the journalist answered that he did not reveal his sources, he counterattacked: “But your sources are always wrong. They always misrepresent. You don’t clarify”.
And he finished: “When you make a mistake, you never correct it”.