translated from Spanish: Ronald Fuentes: “We will not travel to play the match with University of Chile”

The coach of Unión Española, Ronald Fuentes, stated bluntly that the Hispanic squad will not travel to La Serena to face University of Chile on Saturday for the semi-final of the Copa Chile.Primero was the owner of the four-year-old company Jorge Segovia, who claimed that Union will not appear before the Blues and now this was confirmed by the red store strategist.” We will not travel to play the match with Universidad de Chile. Tomorrow we will play a meeting between us to close the working week,” he said in dialogue with DNA radio.” I finished the year with a lot of regret. We worked with professionalism, but we felt we had a good level of football. The rest of the teams had a casualty and we were growing up. We wanted to be in the top 7 to be in South Americana,” he said. In addition, in the face of the possible punishment of five years without being able to play Copa Chile, the last DT of Universidad de Concepción noted that “the club will abide by the economic sanctions (500 UF), but since the rules are not clear, we will appeal if there are sports sanctions with lawyers.”” From my point of view, bad decisions were made at ANFP. There were a lot of situations to speculate, and I think if we want this to improve the basics they must be clear from the beginning. They’ve been interpreting for one or the other for seven years,” he added. Finally, Fuentes clarified that this decision will not affect players. Remember that if you do not play, University of Chile becomes the winner and you will take the ‘Chile 4’ slot for the Copa Libertadores 2020.” I see the players well, because we have been as a technical staff and also Luis (Baquedano), as general manager, transparent with the information that has come in. That’s why I was telling you, there was always some choice: there was talk of some percentages, that you could play the game and we always had the idea that that was going to happen. If it were to be played we were going to be prepared in the football, psychological and everything that has to do with what it involves football,” he said.

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