Ándres Merlos gives a cagey reply to Fassi’s apology to Tapia | OneFootball

Andrés Fassi publicly apologized to the AFA and ‘Chiqui’ Tapia for what happened in September 2024, when the president of the “T” exploded over incidents in Mendoza, where Andrés Merlos was involved, who coincidentally was in Córdoba but in the Alberdi neighborhood.

After the match between Belgrano and San Martín de San Juan, the referee was asked about the words of the top “Albiazul” official, a situation which, according to him, he was unaware of: “I haven’t seen anything. One is so focused on planning the match. Now I’ll go and check.”

When asked again if he had received any apologies personally, the referee was blunt and ironic: “I have two paths with forgiveness. The first is the one we all have to take: God’s path. It’s the most sincere because you speak from the heart and the gut, and that’s the forgiveness that matters. Then there’s the other one, the one on Corrientes Street. Do you know what’s on Corrientes Street?” and he walked away.

At the beginning of September 2024, after Talleres was eliminated by Boca in the round of 16 of the Copa Argentina, a furious Fassi did approach the referees’ locker room at the Malvinas Argentinas and had a heated confrontation with Merlos.

The episode escalated to such an extent that police had to intervene to calm things down so the referee team could enter their locker room, and subsequently, the “Tallarín” president was suspended by the AFA Disciplinary Tribunal.

The forceful response from AFA to Fassi’s apology: «You’ve got some nerve…»

No filter. This is how AFA responded to Fassi after the apology that the president of Talleres made in a press conference to “Chiqui” Tapia for his statements a year ago after the scandal in the match with Andrés Merlos.

The message came from AFA treasurer, Pablo Toviggino, who used his personal account to post a statement. There he called him a “traitor,” “liar,” “coward,” and said that together with Santillán, Scioli, and Cuneo Libarona, “they pushed various judicial and media measures, in a clear maneuver of institutional coup, against the democratic elections of the Honorable AFA Assembly”

Additionally, Toviggino pointed out that “surely President Tapia (The Commander) will accept your apologies, because he is a gentleman,” and at the end he once again called out the head of the Córdoba club for having accused the AFA president’s son: “With the Family, NO!!” he concluded.

During the afternoon, Fassi had publicly expressed an apology to AFA president Claudio “Chiqui” Tapia. “A few days after those events (Editor’s note: the incident with Andrés Merlos), I held a press conference. Today, my reflection is that neither the moment nor the way I expressed myself were appropriate. I was wrong,” he explained.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇪🇸 here.