Abraham: "Colón need passion, but strong leadership off the pitch too" | OneFootball

One of the presidential candidates for Colón appeared on ADN Gol ahead of the assembly that will take place in the coming days at Sabalero and also previewed the upcoming election event that will be held on November 30th.

Today at 8 PM, we are having an informative meeting, a sort of project launch for members and the press.

It's going to be a pleasant meeting, the idea is for it to be a discussion-debate. We will explain, outline our project, our ideas for the institution. And well, afterward, we will be debating with the members and journalists, if they want to ask something, we are open to answers, there's no problem. Regarding what we plan to do with the 26-27 management that is coming up, right?

Well, first of all, let me tell you that Mauro Medina and I have been talking for almost a year. He has a great friendship with another very important person within our group, who is Daniel Kosiansky, the owner of the truck company Transyar, who is one of the main people within the group, I would say, if we can talk about main people, in some way.

Well, Mauro introduced me to him, let's say, we hit it off right away, because we have a very similar synergy in terms of what we think about institutions, what sports are, and what the financial and business parts are that must necessarily converge for sports matters to be successful. We moved forward, I have traveled to Rosario to meet with him, he came here, well, we kind of kept it under wraps, he will be part of our proposal, you will soon know from where. Over the weekend, he invited us to Paraná with a great, but great experience, because honestly, it is surprising to see how the TC teams work, I was surprised, I didn't think it was of the dimension that the road tourism category has in Argentina, although there were, I think, about 50,000 people, a really crazy thing.

Well, all the sponsorship, all the people surrounding it, and in that context, well, the truth is we had a barbecue with all his sponsors, who are very high-caliber companies in Argentina, and well, talking about Colón, many committed their support, of course, I believe that if we are there, we will have it, especially because of the relationship they have with Mauro, which is personal and of many years, a person who has an excellent name in the world of motor sports, moreover, I think tomorrow, possibly today he was going to be here in Santa Fe for the presentation, we will see, because he had to travel to São Paulo for the Formula 1 issue. F1. So, well, last night we talked on the phone for a long time, and well, talking about that issue, he will try to be here tonight, depending on the flights, they are taking a charter to Brazil for Formula 1, so well, with his team, so we are somewhat dependent on that. But well, in broad strokes, a person who I believe, not just for us as a group, which yes, obviously, but for Colón in general, is of immense value, I think we cannot waste him.

Yes, it's harmful to look little, because then the minorities come, and the minorities do not fulfill the function they have to fulfill, and the last minority that fulfilled the function was us when we had to fight against the Lerche management, we made the complaints and everything that people already know.

I think it was the last minority that worked. And sometimes when minorities work, it is very good because they save situations or expose situations as it happened to us at that time where, well, maybe I didn't allow the blood to reach the river in some situation. Having said this, regarding the list, yes, I tell you, Futuro Sabalero is part of Pasión, they are different groups of people that came together for the previous election.

One of those parts of Futuro Sabalero, that's why it doesn't carry the name Futuro, but Pasión, because the name of the list is Pasión. There are other groups of people who have come together and, well, now we form a single group under that name of Pasión, Pasión Sabalera, which represents what all of us are. All people very passionate about the institution, with a lot of trajectory.

The case of Mauro, well, he told me, from a very young age, being from a Sabalero family, even though he didn't live in Santa Fe, he later remained linked to Colón. I had the case of Mauro. The case of Javier Mercado, who is living in Buenos Aires.

There are people like Facundo Vercellone, who also has a company that is in Buenos Aires. The case of people who are, perhaps, abroad and who are also part of the group, even though they cannot be physically here in Santa Fe. A bit, that's why the name Pasión.

It represents what we believe and have always externalized in our participation in Colón. Colón needs a lot of passion, but it also needs a lot of operational, technical capacity from the management point of view. I think management is going to be fundamental.

(7:12) That's why we emphasize management so much. And well, to have management you have to have knowledge, you have to have experience, you have to have relationships of all kinds and you also have to have economic resources. I believe that in those areas we are fully covered by many people who are from the business, professional, commercial fields, from different university fields, from different fields that I really think make us form a group. I don't talk about a list, because we have more than 42 people working.

Today I would tell you that we are almost 80. So, counting, as I told you, people who are not in Santa Fe, counting a lot of people who contribute. So, this makes me not talk about a list, but a working group. And well, in that sense, we are going to work and we are going to be, right?

It's a good question. Look, just yesterday we incorporated a young man who is a sociologist into the group and I promise I will ask him, because I also ask myself. Yes, the truth is, I don't know, I think many times they let themselves be carried away (9:26) by what they hear, by hearsay, you know? No, because they told me this or that, and they don't listen to what we tell them.

In this, I will talk about my group that has been working for 20 years. We have always, throughout the 20 years, maintained a line of conduct and philosophy of thought. Anyone who listened to us in 2006, and listens to me or us, our group now, the speech is the same, the same.

Not a bit to the left, not a bit to the right. We don't lie to people, we tell them the truth. Sometimes the truth is costly, as I told you about Lerche, it cost us 3 periods of very hard fights where people, especially me, attacked me a lot, but they didn't realize that what we were doing was defending the club.

When they realized it was late, and sometimes it's hard to admit you were wrong. So you have to look for some kind of issue in the other to keep questioning. And well, I think this is what happened.

Fortunately, time goes by like you know that life arranges the melons. And well, I think in that sense today we are getting recognition day by day that perhaps it cost us to rebuild that issue. You asked me why they didn't vote for us, that's why I talked about us.

I think we are paying the price for that history with Lerche. Today people understand that they really need capable people, people with experience, which is what I told you before. We have many of those, not just the one who speaks to you, and I speak in the first person because, well, I am a specialist in sports law, I am a specialist in companies in crisis, I don't like to blow my own horn, but it's the truth.

So people need to know. So for this moment of crisis, as I am, there are other people on the list who have a lot of financial, economic, accounting, business qualities to contribute to the institution, and that's why we believe we are the best option. We are convinced of that and people are starting to recognize us.

Look, we are very pleasantly surprised, because, well, these invitations we made for tonight, the truth is the place is going to be too small for us.

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