After the earthquake, River is slowly trying to find calm: the dinner of the Foundation on Tuesday night with a picture of the squad and players together and the statements of the players, managers and Demichelis himself in the last hours serves to create on the outside an image of commitment. of the parties threatened before and after the defeat against Vélez at Demichelis-gate. But there are and will be consequences of a storm that is not suitable for the peace that has been experienced in recent years in the club.
Internal leaks of the coach’s off-the-record talks to journalists that reached the squad’s ears led to more than one meeting between the coach, who remained at the center of the scene, and of the players: Demichelis spoke to several of the referees individually and also with the group as a whole to try to explain the goals of a short circuit that came in the middle of a bad football moment But those conversations, which later clearly included managers and part of the football structure, also led the coach himself to lose an important person he trusted.
Demichelis’ press chief, Ricardo Dasso, will leave his position in the next few hours as a result of recent events. The small CD table decided on Thursday to make a change in that strategic position which, in this case, means that the coach himself will be left daily without the journalist, one of his closest parts.
Dasso was informed of this decision on Friday, according to the club, but as of Sunday night he was still in the office. In fact, he accompanied Demichelis and the delegation of San Nicolás for the friendly that River beat Universidad Católica 1-0 on Saturday and continues to do his job. Although the CD announced that his departure will be formalized in the next hours: his position will be occupied by men from the general structure of the club’s Press.
This episode is another sequel that affects the coach himself after the obvious failure to manage and lead his own players, who read different versions through social networks that show that the coach has become critical of behavior of his team in the elimination of the Copa Libertadores or that he reaffirmed the need for a generational change, something that this Saturday he took it upon himself to publicly deny: “I have not watching DNI. I don’t have the references to manage the locker room but to play,” emphasized the coach for a while after Enzo Pérez answered the question well after the game against. Catholic. “About what happened…What I said and stopped talking I did behind closed doors, no more,” the captain briefly emphasized.
The truth is that the impending departure of the team’s press officer is one of the aftershocks of an earthquake that River is trying to overcome in order to rebuild the internal climate and to transfer it to the field…
