Edwin Cardona was the main protagonist of a game that did not play and in which more of the controversy was talked about than a surprise defeat.
Águilas beat an alternate national athletic team 2-1, a match that was played on a complex court, which had many discussions in which there was an expelled that was not even on the playing field.
The discussion between Cardona and Roldán
Cardona saw the red in the middle of an action that seemed foul and that he claimed angrily from the line.
Something told the referee Wilmar Roldán, who without blinking, and despite the request for explanations by Marino Hnestroza, Matheus Uribe and more players waiting on the bench, made the most radical decision.
This was the action:
🚨🟥 Attention National fans! Edwin Cardona who was on the alternate bank is expelled, Wilmar Roldán decided red card for the steering wheel. #Ligin 🦅🔥🟢 pic.twitter.com/NcVa1Zp7c8
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What told him it was so serious?
In the midst of the transmission of the party, from the ground floor it was not possible to hear exactly what the midfielder said, but it was noted that he was living the game with a lot of intensity in the line, and did not seem to be surprised that he had passed in the tone of his claim.
The face of coach Javier Gandolfi seemed to coincide with the interpretation of Roldán, because instead of reacting with the discomfort of others on the bench, he only tried to remove Cardona from the scene to prevent the issue from complicating even more.
Of course, an image at the end, after he had already been expelled, showed Cardona's discomfort. The narrator Tito Puccetti read immediately read what the player said, already without reaction or way to avoid the sanction of two dates that will surely be imposed: “Cagón,” he said, in view of all.
The problem now is not his absence on the last date against Junior, but the decline on the first date of the home runs, an instance in which all the troops are needed, plus a man with his influence on the attack.
