Marcos Díaz speaks out: The squad did nothing for me either | OneFootball

The end of Marcos Díaz’s cycle at Colón did not go unnoticed. The historic goalkeeper, who returned to the club with the hope of experiencing one last great year at his footballing home, ended up leaving amid tensions, silences, internal differences, and a breakup that he himself described as painful and avoidable. His statements after the contract termination revealed a background that fans were unaware of and that now exposes the depth of the conflict.

In an extensive interview given to La Central Deportiva de Cadena 3 Santa Fe, Díaz went over what happened point by point, targeting the directors, the coaching staff, and the squad itself, and described a relationship that gradually wore down until it broke with no possibility of return.

Regarding his year at Colón, he did not hesitate to admit the emotional blow he experienced: “It’s not the year I would have wanted to have, for everything, for me, for the club that saw me grow up, because the expectation and the hope were different and I would have liked reality to be different”. And there he began to reveal the background of his conflict with the management: “I was surprised to be left out so far in advance, by the management, I never thought it could happen to me and even more so without giving me an explanation”.

In that context, he also pointed directly at the coach: “Then what happened with the coach, I couldn’t have a conversation with the management so they could give me an explanation”. Díaz recounted his falling out with Minella: “Minella separated me, because of what happened in the match when I didn’t travel to Chaco, which also surprised me because we had talked about it and everything was clear, we had apologized to each other and everything was clear”, and he continued: “Then he argued it was a lack of respect, which I explained to him when he gave me the news, that it wasn’t as he thought, I never disrespected him or my teammates”.

Then came one of his strongest statements: “I was surprised that Minella lied the way he did”. According to Díaz, his absence from the trip was due to personal reasons: “I didn’t like the way it was handled, I was already dealing with a blow that week because of what had happened, I explained it to the management and my teammates, I needed a mental break, that’s why I asked not to travel, but never disrespecting anyone, that’s why I’m at peace”.

The goalkeeper said he spoke with several key players before the trip: “I spoke with my teammates before the trip and they understood, they took advantage of it to make the decision they made”. However, he also harshly criticized the squad itself: “They let me down, after what happened there were no more conversations, we were supposed to have a meeting that never happened, on their part, I was always available and waited for that meeting that never took place, it surprised and hurt me, it wasn’t the right time to do that considering how the group was doing”.

Díaz also stated that he wanted to keep supporting: “I told Medrán that I would be there for whatever was needed, not necessarily to play, I wanted to be with the group, because I was part of it, responsible for the situation and had to be there, no one ever gave me any explanation.” And he added another deep criticism: “The group didn’t do anything for me either, that also surprised me, I’m at peace because I’m straightforward, there was no going back from the squad, I would have liked that if there was something, they would tell me”.

His sense of isolation deepened: “I thought we would all be on the same page when Medrán arrived, it seems I was a really bad person and didn’t realize it”, he said with a clearly ironic tone. And he continued: “I always faced up to things, no one can reproach me for that, it hurts that they treated me badly, they should have picked up the phone and not have the coach tell me it was the management’s decision”.

Regarding his actions, he insisted: “I thought I handled myself well, I always acted the same way, I spoke up and always tried to pull in the same direction, trying to move forward, I never spoke badly about a teammate, I felt I had to be with the group”. And he confessed how what he experienced affected him: “I felt like I was the group’s problem, and the situation stayed the same, I spoke with Medrán and tried to return to the group, I wanted to be back with the squad”. Later he added: “I was put in a situation that had nothing to do with me”.

He even recounted personal conversations: “I knew Pulga from having faced him, I had a talk with him, tried to make everything clear, but it never happened that I could come back”. And he gave another example: “I thought I had a good relationship with Gigliotti, but after all this I see that’s not the case, as I say about him I say about the whole squad, it seems I was the rotten apple, that’s what I was made to feel, I had no support”.

The pain of what he had to go through

Díaz explained that he had never experienced anything like this: “Nothing like this had ever happened to me and I never had problems with anyone, this also helps me know how to face certain situations from now on”. And he questioned the team’s collective direction: “Every day I ask myself what happened to Colón this year, we started well with a big idea and expectation, I don’t know what happened that everything was lost”.

He also criticized the lack of gestures: “I never received a message or call from anyone, I would have liked the person who spoke to me recently to have done it at that time”. And he denied rumors about his departure: “It’s a lie that I never wanted to negotiate a termination, no one called me before to find a way out and the break would have happened at another time, I never got any answers from the other side”.

Finally, he closed his chapter with a phrase as heartfelt as it was definitive: “My time at Colón is over, because it wasn’t how I would have wanted, my revenge was supposed to be on the pitch, from the outside it’s not the same, unfortunately I’ve already closed that chapter in my mind because it’s not what I wanted, I had other hopes, it hurts and it will keep hurting, it can’t be reversed from anywhere else”.

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