Newell’s scandal: opposition hints at 2025 relegation deal, backtracks | OneFootball

While Newell’s is going through turbulent days, with the team dangerously close to relegation, the Rosario side has added a new controversy after an opposition leader declared that La Lepra fixed a match with Huracán to avoid relegation at the end of 2025.

As if Roberto Sensini’s resignation as sporting director wasn’t enough to fuel the fire of Newell’s crisis, it was Daniel Giraudo, a leading figure of the ADN Leproso group, who added more fuel. Specifically, Giraudo claimed that the 2-0 win over Huracán at the end of the 2025 Clausura group stage “was won by Cristian D’Amico.”

“They say Newell’s won only one of the last 19 matches. False. That match was won by Cristian D’Amico and we all know it,” Giraudo stated, referring to the former vice president of the club in the administration prior to Ignacio Boero’s. In fact, D’Amico ran as a candidate against Boero, but the latter defeated him and even doubled his votes. Hours after his first tweet, Giraudo tried to tone down his statements and claimed that D’Amico’s role was to “guarantee proper refereeing,” thanks to his good relationship with the AFA, but the damage was already done.

The victory Giraudo refers to is the 2-0 against el Globo and, with his words, he seemed to suggest that La Lepra’s management fixed the win with the team from Parque Patricios to avoid relegation. Curiously, that match was marked by strong gestures from Leonardo Gil, Huracán’s midfielder, towards his teammates, in a fit of rage that also seemed to suggest the squad had been incentivized. After the scandal, Colo even published a statement on his social media in which he assured that he would “never question the honorability” of his teammates, but the controversy lingered in the air. As if all this weren’t enough, those three points Huracán left behind would have allowed them to qualify for the Copa Sudamericana.

Giraudo’s post wasn’t the only controversial statement on the matter, as D’Amico himself hinted in an interview that they had made “arrangements” to avoid relegation before Boero took office. Thus, the spotlight returns to the specter of incentivization and Newell’s is at the center of attention, while Frank Darío Kudelka and his squad navigate a sea of uncertainties, afraid of sinking to the bottom of the annual table, where they currently sit last with only three points.

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