translated from Spanish: Arturo Salah says ‘NO’ to the minute of silence by Camilo Catrillanca in the Red against Honduras match

“No, no we have”. Thus the head of Chilean soccer, Arturo Salah, dismissed the request for a minute’s silence at the start of the match for the Chilean team in Temuco in honor to the mapuche community member Camilo Catrillanca.
From the National Association of professional football was ruled out the tribute which formally requested CSD Colo Colo and also asked Harold Mayne Nicholls, what the leader said that “We regret the event and the accident, but the football is out of this … no you can mingle with the football”.
Salah said that did not exist a planning to pay such tribute “I understand that a request came. We will analyze, but it is difficult to assemble a situation as well as on the top of the party,”said the official.
Against the decision of the maximum national soccer body many different positions have emerged, however, Salah said “I do not agree that is looking to the side. They are instances in which the schedules, the Protocol… The selection is of all Chileans, should take care of it, he insisted.
Andrés Fazio, Vice President of the Corporation, agrees with the determination and noted that in the situation exceeds football “certainly say that we sorry for the situation that has occurred in the Araucania, but soccer and selection belong to us all, it is another dynamic”, concluded.

Original source in Spanish