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·30 September 2025
Rodolfo De Paoli on his time at Colón: "I never expected so much politics"

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·30 September 2025
Rodolfo De Paoli recalled his time at Colón and stated that he never imagined "there was so much political atmosphere".
In a conversation with Clank, Juan Pablo Varsky's channel, De Paoli remembered that his time at Colón was "nothing, 36 days". He elaborated: "but these are moments when you have to know when to enter and when to exit. It's a devil when they come to get you from Colón and tell you: 'come on, Colón wants to ascend and out of the last eleven matches, it won one'. And I arrived, we won two out of the first four and yet, it was a pressure cooker."
He also reminisced that "there was a very tense microclimate, what Colón is experiencing, I began to chew on in its early stages. I never imagined there was so much political atmosphere. It was madness: poor players and coaches who passed through".
"Osella passed, Minella who was interim, won a match and they put him in, lost five and they fired him. Pereyra passed who set it up, started well and lost five matches in a row and they fired him", he continued.
And he added: "'No but let's bring Yllana who was the last champion and they fired him. And he did even worse than us. And then came Medrán, played four matches and didn't win any, lost three. Colón is madness".
On the other hand, he spoke about the power of the Santa Fe press. "At a local level, it's like managing Boca or River. You go out to the corner and they already know who you went out with, if you had coffee, the training. It was tremendous. It's a very big club, they have to agree among themselves".
This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇪🇸 here.