What is known about Juan Fernando Quintero's crisis in America? These are the facts

Juan Fernando Quintero, Figure of the America of CAI.

Photo: América de Cali

América de Cali closed a semester on Thursday in which, despite being the best team of all against everyone in the Betplay League and having classified the play-offs of the South American Cup, the Sinsabor was great, especially after not reaching the final of this semester in Colombian professional football.

The Scarlet Table has been the subject of speculation in the last hours, including those that question the continuity of Juan Fernando Quintero, who was absent from the call in the match against Independiente Medellín, a duel corresponding to the sixth date of the semifinal home runs.

Through a statement, the scarlet picture explained that Quintero was injured. “He withdrew from the call as a preventive measure taking into account his recent knee injury, to complete his strengthening process, since he is not yet 100%,” reads the document.

However, the version that the absence of the Antioquia steering wheel could be due to economic problems, since the journalist Pipe Sierra published – after the statement of the injury – that America and Juanfer would have been scammed by an investor who would have committed to cover the costs of the signing of the footballer. For that reason, according to the journalist, the player asked to get out of the call.

“Until today, no weight has been seen and the team has had to assume all expenses (like the wage of the steering wheel, rigorously). For example, when the player traveled with his family to Cali to sign, the “investor” would have requested to lease a private plane, “Sierra said on his social networks.

The businessman Tulio Gómez, maximum shareholder of America and president of the Vallecaucano Club between 2016 and 2018, reacted to the information that was circulating and questioned Sierra's professionalism. He even mentioned a possible legal measure against the communicator.

“When America is eliminated from some tournament, many slugs invent gossip to increase followers, to some” journalists “of social networks that are believed journalists. It will have to demand the most harmful, especially one such pipeline,” Gomez said in his X account (Twitter).

Quintero, the star of America

Juan Fernando Quintero signed his contract with América de Cali in mid -January, after finishing his link with Racing in an operation that is around US $ 2.4 million. The steering wheel came from being key in the consecration of the Argentine team in the South American Cup last year.

This semester, counting Betplay League and the group stage of the South American, Juanfer He played 21 games, scored three goals and provided five assists. He was summoned to the Colombian National Team on the FIFA dates of March and June, although in the most recent one he could not join the group because of the same knee injury that prevented him from playing with Medellín this Thursday.

Quintero, in postpartid interviews given in the last month, questioned its continuity with the scarlet institution. “I hope to finish well, on Thursday I will look at what decision to make. I had already spoken “, He commented last Sunday when asked what comes to him.

As the player has not talked with the press or referred to the issue in his social networks, his perspective of the facts involving the versions found between Pipe Sierra and Tulio Gómez, in addition to his future with the scarlet picture, they are so far an unknown.

America, for now, has only confirmed the exits of coach Jorge Da Silva, who like his coaching staff presented his resignation, and that of the extreme Duván Vergara, who will be announced in the next few days as the new Racing player of Avellaneda, the exequipo of Juanfer.

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