Faced with the expulsion of the Nicaraguan National Soccer Team from the Gold Cup, all members of the board of the Nicaraguan Soccer Federation (Fenifut) should resign for the “clumsiness” they committed by registering an “ineligible” foreigner in international matches » for these competitions, says sports writer Miguel Mendoza.
The Blue and White National Team, which for the fourth time in its history had qualified to participate in the Gold Cup, one of the highest regional level soccer events, was sanctioned by the Disciplinary Committee of the Confederation of North America, Central America and the Caribbean of Soccer (Concacaf) with “exclusion” from the event that will begin in its group stage on June 24.
Nicaragua was located in Group “A” along with the United States, Jamaica, and a team that won the preliminaries. However, the dream that the Azul y Blanco would show that Nicaraguan soccer has improved, vanished.
Causes and responsible for the expulsion
The Concacaf resolution is clear and direct in stating the reasons for the most drastic measure taken in case of violation of the regulations of the sports organization: “Concacaf has announced that its Disciplinary Committee has sanctioned the Nicaraguan Football Federation (Fenifut) for a serious violation of the applicable FIFA/Concacaf regulations, by fielding an ineligible player in eight matches of the Nicaraguan Men’s National Team, including matches of the 2022-23 Concacaf Nations League (CND), “he reported. the regional football organization.
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The foreign player ineligible to play wearing the blue and white uniform is the Uruguayan nationalized Nicaraguan Richard Rodríguez, who had not met all the nationality requirements to integrate the Nicaraguan team and, nevertheless, was fielded in eight international matches.
“Given this serious violation of the regulations, the Concacaf Disciplinary Committee has decided to exclude the Nicaraguan Men’s National Team from competing in the 2023 Gold-Cocacaf Cup and relegate it to League B of the Nations League (CNL) 2023/24” , adds the statement. That is, Nicaragua was lowered in level in regional competitions.
«In another country, with order and shame, all members of the federation would have to resign due to this clumsiness, affront and humiliation, but in Nicaragua -even though they tell me that I mix everything up with politics- it will not happen because they have protection from the dictatorship and all (Those responsible for the sanction) are operators of the regime, which controls the charges within the sport,” criticizes, through his official Twitter account, the chronicler Mendoza, who has been covering Nicaraguan sports for more than 30 years.
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Mendoza blames the secretary general of the Sandinista Mayor’s Office of Managua, Fidel Moreno, the president of Fenifut Manuel Quintanilla, the secretary general of the same, José María Bermúdez, and all the directors, to whom he He points out that they are “corrupt” and that they are responsible for violating the Concacaf regulations.
“They have been using corrupt money for years to nationalize soccer players to join the National Team. There is always the hand of Fidel Moreno in all this. And since they are rude with reales, they do not even understand the regulations or, perhaps, since they are used to doing whatever they want, they thought they could put and remove foreigners with the Blue and White without respecting the rules, “accuses the sports writer.
The Uruguayan player, Richard Rodríguez, who became the reason for the fall of the Blue and White, lined up with the team for the first time in an official game against Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on September 5, 2019. He then participated in 7 matches more and his last appearance with the Nicaraguan shirt was on June 13, 2022, in a match played against the Bahamas, which Nicaragua won 4-0.
