Eduardo Dávila pointed against the team's squad for the negative results in Liga Betplay and threatened not to pay: “Do not comply (with payment) as punishment.”
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Eduardo Dávila, maximum shareholder of the Magdalena Union, re -set fire to the Colombian football panorama. In the midst of a sporting crisis that sinks to the samarium team at the bottom of the table, Dávila decided to cut for the healthy: he publicly announced that he will not pay the salary to the players, arguing low performance as an excuse.
In an interview with Vive Radio, Dávila was blunt: “We have not paid their payroll, they have not fulfilled. (…) What they have done is lose and lose and devalue the team, send us to the B.” According to him, the team was up to date in payments until recently, but the lousy performance – not a single victory throughout the 2025 season – justifies cutting the flow of money.
The Magdalena Union is currently the worst team of the Betplay League. In the absence of a date for all against all, the team has only added 8 points, product of 8 draws and 11 losses. Last in the table, without triumphs and with the descent practically sealed, the Samarios will face Fortaleza this Saturday, May 24 in a party without consequences for the classification, but loaded with institutional tension.
Dávila did not hide: “I have not paid it or pay it. As a punishment, I will not comply. I have been fulfilling all year, the whole semester, to the letter and look where we are. They have to comply.”
But the storm does not end in sports. At the beginning of May, Dávila was the protagonist of another controversy when referring to women's football with an openly discriminatory tone. In dialogue with the midfielder of sport, he said: “While in charge of this (the Magdalena Union), there will be no women's football. I do not agree. Football is not a sport for women. That they play tennis, volleyball or dominoes, but football no.”
Meanwhile, the Magdalena Union does not raise their heads in sports and institutional still leaves much to be desired.
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