One year on from the Riestra-Vélez scandal, Spreen reveals his debut plan | OneFootball

In a football world where controversies and scandals are never in short supply, almost a year ago, on November 11, 2024, one of the biggest and most embarrassing fiascos in the Argentine First Division championship took place. In the match between Deportivo Riestra and Vélez Sarsfield for matchday 22 of the Professional League, Spreen made his professional debut.

In a blatant (albeit successful) marketing strategy, the Malevo fielded the streamer from Santa Fe in the official starting eleven, only to substitute him before the first minute of play after he committed a foul against an opponent, wasting a substitution and a window right at the start. That would be, in addition to his debut, his farewell as a footballer.

The backlash was so great against the Bajo Flores club, its directors, and Iván Buhajeruk himself (the influencer's real name) from all the main figures in Argentine football, the press, and fans, that the AFA issued a special clause to prevent these episodes from happening again, and even the courts got involved.

This Tuesday, almost 350 days after this regrettable stunt, the content creator recalled his fleeting experience in the First Division and revealed what the game plan was for when he was on the field: “It was planned that I would leave the match on the first play,” he explained during a livestream on the Mernuel and Bauleti streamers’ channel.

“If Riestra kicked off, I had to pass the ball and run to the corner line, whichever one I chose. They were going to send it to me and told me: ‘Do whatever you want, hold on to it.’ It was impossible. If I controlled it, that would’ve been my prime. That was the only thing I practiced all week, that kickoff play and me running,” Spreen detailed. As fate would have it, Vélez had the kickoff, so the controversial plan was thwarted.

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