The Minister of the Interior of Chile, Rodrigo Delgado, asked the squad of the Argentine soccer team “a little more respect” after the messages published by some players on social networks due to the delays in controls at the airport in the city of Calama, where they arrived on Wednesday night to face the local team this Thursday for the Qatar 2022 qualifiers.
“They made fun of the customs officials, of a dog that was looking for drugs… They should be grateful because those same officials helped them sort out the mess of papers they had, so I ask a little more respect for Chile, for the history of Chile, because I saw an unpleasant emoticon next to the Chilean flag”, said the minister. The reference has to do with an Instagram story that goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez uploaded and then deleted, with a video in which soccer players were seen waiting to be swabbed, along with an image of a Chilean flag with an emoji of a little face about to vomit.
“I read that some players were talking about quilombo, but the truth is that the real quilombo was with the Argentine delegation with their papers. It strikes me that this player (Martínez) or these players have not been alerted by those who coordinate the selection of the quilombo they had, ”explained the official, according to the newspaper The fourth.
The Argentine soccer players were annoyed and annoyed by the delay in the entry of the delegation to Chile, at the El Loa Airport in Calamawhere exhaustive sanitary and migratory controls were carried out.
Delgado continued to lambaste the albiceleste delegation. “I want to explain to the Argentine players that when they speak ill of health personnel, and perhaps they do not know, but Chile has reached the numbers it has in vaccination, in testing for the selfless work of those health officials who make fun of themselves. ”.
Finally, the minister was conclusive in expressing that the delay of more than an hour and a half at the airport was a consequence of the sloppiness in the paperwork of the Argentine campus: “They came with a lot of disorder and I would invite them to be more humble, and to recognize that they had real chaos.”
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