VIDEO | Quinteros sent off for insulting referee Echenique | OneFootball

After a barrage of insults directed at referee Fernando Echenique, Independiente’s coach Gustavo Quinteros was sent off.

The anger had been brewing for a while. Quinteros was not happy with Echenique being appointed to officiate the match against Lanús. The coach lost his temper quickly. “Come on, stop busting our balls!” he shouted at the referee in the 29th minute of the first half, when Rojo was already losing 1-0. The coach was demanding yellow cards for Lanús just as they were being given to his own players. The referee heard him and showed him the red card, so Leandro Desábato, his assistant coach, took charge of the team.

The coach had already clashed with Echenique when he was in charge of Vélez. Last year, he was involved in heated disputes with the referee in matches against Lanús (0-0), Boca (0-1), and Belgrano (1-1). “They should never assign us a referee like Echenique, or others, to officiate us three times in a row again. We feel wronged. This is unacceptable,” he said at the end of 2024, after Fortín’s defeat at Unión’s stadium by 1-0, just a few days before losing the Copa Argentina final at the same venue against Central Córdoba of Santiago del Estero.

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