From Mexico to Argentina, in humble and improvised sports training schools, not only the illusions of millions of children and adolescents who dream of reaching fame in football are played daily, but the hope of their parents to gambetear through them through them poverty.They are forgotten places for the joy of progress, where the only salvation seems to be in the appearance of a “representative” with an economic offer to take young people and make them debut in the main clubs of the south of the continent and Europe, such asThey did at the time with the Argentine Lionel Messi or the Colombian James Rodríguez.That figure of the player who leaves the neighborhoods and then becoming an international star, leaving behind misery and prohibitions, is the ideal scenario for which many families are willing to deliver everything.​Pero en estas vidas llenas de postergaciones los sueños casi nunca se cumplen.And sometimes they transform into nightmare.This has happened to hundreds of amateur players and their families, deceived by characters from the "other football" through a scheme as simple as effective: the scam leading the players to different countries of South America, as well as Central America, Europe orAsia and drift.In ‘Off Side’.In this report, made by the newspaper El País de Cali (Colombia), La Nación (Paraguay), Opinion (Bolivia) and Connectas, 217 cases of athletes have been registered, mostly Colombians, who far from consecrating in international football, they ended up being victims of an illegal market that includes from scam and trafficking in people to sexual exploitation.This figure came after requesting information from the judicial authorities in Colombia, Paraguay and Bolivia, and crossing it with the complaints of some of the victims and press reports in various media of the continent.Number that reflects the magnitude of a silent crime that could well be called ‘trafficking in soccer players’, although that figure does not exist in the Criminal Code of any country.Although it is not about the criminal action of an organized criminal structure, each of the people who integrates the payroll of 19 false cazatalent -party identified for this report, the same pattern of falsehood is limited to achieve their purpose: they deceive families of limited resources,To those who sell the illusion of taking their children to try in the second or third division of another country, they are asked for a low sum of money to start procedures and then, with mature illusion, they demand from 600 to 10.000 dollars to take them, without obstacles, to the "fame".With letters of adulterated teams, falsified managers and dreams adjusted to the illusion of each victim, families mortgage their homes, sell their belongings, carry out all kinds of activities or access informal credits such as 'drop by drop'Keep the opportunity to pass.A career marathon to write down an autogol in life.

In the municipalities of the Colombian Pacific coast, suffocated by poverty, illegal crops and armed conflict, dreams are pursued in pastures or on the banks of the beach with bare feet and after spoiled plastic balls, ragand paper.From this region, considered by the Bank of the Republic as the poorest in the country, several of the figures of the Colombian National Team and the professional football teams came out.Balompié became almost the only legal option that their children and young people with a strong leather of reaching a dignified life have.That knows at least twenty false entrepreneurs identified during this report, who taught these families that the premise is false that ‘dreaming does not cost anything’.Yes it costs, and enough.

It was the month of October 2019 when he appeared in the house of Jefferson and other young people between 15 and 21 years old, in a popular sector of the municipality of Quibdó, the Argentine businessman Édgar Humberto Ozuna, who appeared as president of the Thomas Bata Sports ClubFrom Quillacollo (Cochabamba), a second -division team of Bolivia football, with blank letters to take young promises to try that league.Aware that to the future it is sometimes necessary to give him a boost, Jefferson's uncle, a humble fisherman, agreed to an informal loan known as 'drop by drop', a loan that criminal organizations deliver without prior study and where the debt is paideven life.Three weeks later, the hope of a whole family landed in El Alto and then in Cochabamba, Bolivia, waiting for the young man to begin to break the nets with his goals and scare poverty with his salary.But the reflectors of no stadium were turned on for their debut.Jefferson was abandoned by the entrepreneur at a hotel with eight other young people and then infected the Covid.Today he lives in Cochabamba of people's charity.His family in Colombia, now poor.

In that transgender paper dreams, Jefferson's story is repeated from dozens among young Colombians who fell into the same trap and now survive abroad cleaning the windshields of cars in traffic lights or as informal vendors in the streets.Many arrived in Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay, Central America or Europe paying twice what a flight in executive class costs to go to abandonment in economic class.For others, their illusion did not even take a track because they stayed in their homes with the suitcases and dreams packed, waiting for the cazatalents that did not even take them to know the waiting room of an airport.

This was done by Carlos Velásquez, a false Venezuelan sports delegate who arrived in mid -2018 to the East of Cali to desecrate the sacred field of football in the October 12 neighborhood.The same court that saw the ‘Palomo’ Alveiro Usuriaga.

It is 7 in this morning in this sector of the East of Cali and while Yúver* again ties his booties, with empty pockets and waiting for a second chance, remember that his mother, a domestic employee, managed with effort and owing eachHoly candle gather the $ 700 for the trip that the young man never made.With the creak of a broken dream, the probability that his mother someday does not have to get up to wash foreign clothes was also postponed."It is painful that there are people who play that way with the illusions of humble people who only seek to get ahead and offer a better life to their family," he says.Colombia is the third country in America that exported more players in 2020 and the fifth worldwide, according to a report by the specialized site Big Data Sports.And where this illegal market originates mostly.But there is a reality, as bleak as losing a championship in the last second, which may explain it.Unlike Brazil (with four divisions and 128 teams), Argentina (with five divisions and 107 teams), Paraguay (with four divisions and 62 teams) or Bolivia (with 3 divisions and 60 teams), in Colombia there are only 2 divisions and36 clubs endorsed with quota for just 30 athletes each.That is, there is only space in professional football for 1.080 players, when tens of thousands of young people dream of jumping to the stadium gram.That is why the temptation to deposit sleep in any foreign hand will always be an alternative."In Colombia it is very easy to abuse the expectations of the people," says Carlos González Puché, president of the Colombian Association of Professional Footballers (Acolfutpro) "because parents are willing to pay and do what is within their reach, in allsocial levels, to see their children triumph ".Everyone, says González Puché, “they believe they have Maradona at home.And they end up projecting these boys to misery because they leave the studio aside and put football as the only alternative ”.

Nobody knows when or how, but Javier Alexánder Neira emphapié spent in 2012 a public service bus driver of the CoTransniza company, in Bogotá, to become in 2013 a FIFA agent and players' businessman to take Atlético de Madrid(Spain) and to FK Karpaty (Croatia).A dozen complaints that pray against him in the Colombian Prosecutor.Months later he reappeared in Bogotá in a training center, with dark lenses, lord's suit and a renewed repertoire willing to take Jorge Luis Lara, a skilled player who had been in Central America, for China's football.For documentation and pre -contract demanded 8.000 dollars and the promise that the player's representative would receive 100.000 dollars.A couple of weeks later, with false cards, he sent the player to appear to the China Embassy, but they denied the visa.He then asked for the money to find an alternative to get the player from the country and his victims are still waiting for him, along with ten other boys he would carry for Atlético de Madrid in exchange for 1.$ 500 per player.

According to the figures of the Colombian Football Federation, in this country they had registered at the end of 2020 to 77 officially registered intermediaries to carry out transactions with athletes.None of the scammers appears on it.For Iván René Alfaro, a young 22 -year -old Cartagena, the compliments as a skilled player were not a new matter.Owner of a long stride, athletic figure and powerful auction, it was a fact his arrival in Colombian football in a matter of days.However, he was first seen by a cazatalent for teams in Panama and Mexico.In full pandemic, in July, Jorge Andrés Ruiz Atehortúa, dazzled by the talent of the Cartagena player, initiated a project in which he hired Luis Matos and Francisco Rodríguez as coordinators.He rented a court and a house-house to have the best conditions players there. Y empezó a tramitar contratos para el equipo Nicolás Romero y Atlético San Pacho, de México, y el equipo J&J de Panamá.With contracts in hand, parents had to cancel between 700 and 1.000 dollars por los trámites antes de viajar al país asignado.Alfaro, accustomed to mocking brands, could not be dribble about the businessman in front.“In my despair for getting ahead, I talked to my parents and my family and among all we started to gather that money.My dad was unemployed and we still got part of the money with a loan at 20 percent% of interest and sold some of my things and daring I asked some friends money, ”says Alfaro while snorting under the canicular sun of Cartagena to the 3 pm.Of course, everything was a fraud.Ruiz was nothing more than a skilled fake of documents that did not represent anyone. En México jamás han sabido de él y en Panamá, el equipo J&J al que iba a llevar jugadores, resultó ser un conjunto de barrio que no compite en ningún lugar.“The guy took the city's boys and other regions of the country between 18.000 and 20.000 dollars.In November he also assured three César players who would take them to play Belize, but everything was lies and I my allegations submitted to the Prosecutor's Office, ”says Hugo Alfaro Cantillo, who has been the coach of several players on the Atlantic coastColombian who today militate in professionalism as Roger Martínez and Cristian Marrugo.

The World Cups of Brazil 2014 and Russia 2018 marked a new course for dream pirates in Colombia.In both teams, players such as Carlos Sánchez, Jeison Murillo, Éder Álvarez Balanta, Mateus Uribe and Álvaro Montero appeared, who never played professionally in the country and had their opportunity through third and fourth category teams of Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil or Spain.That motivated many amateur players to want to look for their dream in other leagues in Central, South America and Europe.And he gave a new air to those false promoters who went on the hunt for unsuspecting and dreamers, taking advantage of the success of the Colombian National Team, to paint the world they have always wanted to see.

It is noon in the Cartagena corregimiento of Pasacaballos, 45 minutes from the walled city, and on Arroyito street he lives the Pérez Santoyo family.If anyone knows of broken dreams and sacrifices, they are them and their pets.When Yeison, the youngest of the children, just started running as a wild soul after a ball, had to sell the 'tumbaygua', an desired bird and exquisite trincage.With that money they sent him to Cali to try on a team by the World Cup Faustino Asprilla, but the ambition of a coach turned off the possibility of signing.Convinced of his ability, and despite his poverty, they borrowed to send Yeison to the School of New Talents of Barcelona of Spain.But at the end of 2019 it was the COVID-19 in charge of closing the door and cutting the light to sleep.Forced to return to Colombia, he sent his videos to different teams in Europe and Asia.

The dream answer came before expected, when (supposedly) the Al-Wasl Football Club de Dubai was interested in him and put an pre-contract to integrate the professional squad to integrate the professional squad."It seemed to me that the answer had been very fast, but because of the desire of fulfilling my goals I did not give importance to that detail," says the 21 -year -old flyer, knowing that it was the club directed by Diego Armando Maradona in his passageby the Arab Emirates.Given the alleged rush, it was necessary for the player.000 dollars—- que debía consignar al representante del equipo y que le serían devueltos a su llegada a Dubai.“My parents mortgaged the house and borrowed with the banks to get that money;Then we realized that they had cheated us ".As soon as he consigned the money, he turned off the phones and did not know again about his ‘promoter’.

However, says Eunice Santoya, Yeison's mother, "we will continue to insist on her desire to get to football, because her dream becomes a priority for us".Despite the transpiés he has suffered, Yeison is a lucky.Many like him did not break the adversary networks but it was they who ended up wrapped in networks, but prostitution and trafficking in criminal purposes.This is stated by June 2020 that published the Infobae portal.Seven soccer players from Colombia were rescued during an operation by the Spanish Civil Guard while they were sexually exploited in Prados del Rey (Cádiz).Official information assured that the criminal organization recruited young people in Colombia and Argentina with the offer of football contracts in lower leagues that would allow them to remedy the economic problems they and their families.But when they arrived in Spain they were collected at the airport and held the documentation to keep them under control.The young people lived in a room, could only relate to each other and were forced to have sex during their captivity, all under the control of three Spaniards who were captured by the crimes of trafficking in persons for the purpose of sexual exploitation and lucrative prostitution.

"They play the lottery with the future of the boys," says Rogelio Delgado, president of the Association of Footballers of Paraguay (AFP), who knows the case of Ozuna and other false businessmen for the constant complaints that reach their office.Delgado remembers the history of seven Paraguayan soccer players who ended up drifting in Indonesia, deceived by an alleged representative who had taken money from the families of these young people to “sign them” in clubs in the league of that Asian country.

With respect to Edgar Humberto Ozuna, who is not Argentine but a Colombian with a rioplatense accent acted, he has a long judicial record in the sordid world of football trafficking.Despite having four pending investigations in Colombia since 2012, five criminal processes in Paraguay and about twenty complaints in Bolivia, saw the red card only in this pandemic, when he was arrested for fraud in Cochabamba.The complaint had been established by the owners of a hostel where he housed the boys and then fled without canceling the service.In Paraguay, the name of Ozuna Sánchez went almost unnoticed by tax authorities despite its open judicial causes.Among them one that relates it to the crime of trafficking in persons, for which it has a arrest warrant and that was in charge of the today Minister of Children and Adolescents Teresa Martínez.The cause derived from a police tax investigation in which an arrival scheme of young Colombians was discovered to Paraguay- even minors-- who arrived with an alleged employment contract to perform as soccer players in professional teams.Researchers records argue that, between June and August 2017, Ozuna entered Paraguay to about 20 young Colombians, several of them under 18, with the promise that they would play in football teams.He took them to practice in any neighborhood canchita until it disappeared.On December 16, 2017, Ozuna was arrested by the Paraguayan police when he tried to cross a checkpoint to Bolivia.Tried to deceive the authorities using a false document.But as gloomy as his performances is his lifestyle.Through its social networks it manifests a charm for the diabolical.“The devil whispered in my ear,‘ you are not strong enough to resist the storm ’.Today I whispered to the devil in the ear: ‘I am the storm’ ”.This sentence appears as a cover photo on the Facebook account ‘Ozuna Edd’, in which erotic illustrations of women intimidate with demons are also seen.

Michael Narváez, one of the Colombian players who continues to wander through the streets of Bolivia after being deceived by Ozuna, remember that “he had a large tattoo on the back that was from a circle with stars, which is like a pact with the devil.I had another one that said: ‘I didn't kneel God but the devil’ and a demon in his chest and black moons in his arms had tattooed ”.In Bolivia, the first registration of Ozuna appears in a police part on April 17, 2020, the day after it was denounced by a group of nine Colombian players- among them the aforementioned Jefferson- in the city of Cochabamba.The case had media significance in May when half of the players were infected with Coronavirus.Finally, Cochabamba's justice determined Ozuna's preventive detention for aggravated fraud.But not for scamming and abandoning young soccer players, but because he had not paid the services of two accommodations where he kept the Colombian boys for several weeks.Ironically, spreading coronavirus was the "best" that could happen to the players Ozuna took Bolivia under deception.That allowed visibility to a story that, otherwise, would have gone unnoticed.The players with Coronavirus cured and, with the help of a priest, they returned to their places of origin in Colombia.Other soccer players did not run the same fate that Ozuna had previously taken to Bolivia.This is the case of Daniks Leather, 23 years old and a native of Buenaventura, who stayed in Bolivia in the middle of the pandemic, making a living in a chicken roast, selling soda in the street and, in the last time, cleaning windshields ofcars in a roundabout in the city of Santa Cruz.The little he saves sends him to Colombia for the maintenance of his three -year -old son.In the afternoon he trains in a third division club, since he does not abandon the dream of living football.

Despite being an issue that directly involves the circuits of the football business, from the South American Soccer Confederation (Conmebol) they preferred not to talk about this scam system.For at least two months, this journalistic team sought without any position on the case of the highest regional football authority.They did in Colombia from the Colombian Association of Professional Footballers, Asocolfutpro, where they reported that despite working only with professional players, they have helped return to the country to young people who traveled with deception to Iran, to Malaysia, to the curtain countriesIron and Central America, where 1 would supposedly earn 1.000 or 1.$ 500 per month, although they finally ended up living in a room shared with up to five people and in subhuman conditions.One of the many raw and sad ways with which young people from the continent must understand that the 90th minute arrived, the end.That football dream went out and that will not have millionaire contracts, luxurious cars, or fame, no mansions.That everything they will see in slow motion is the play that was not, the network that did not inflated and the fans that his name never chanted.At the close of this report, Yeison Pérez has received a new invitation.This time to be part of the Pantoja Athletic Club of the Dominican Republic, an irrefutable sample that while the yearnings persist, there will always be ozunas on the prowl.The alleged entrepreneur is an Argentine named Nicolás Spur and the pre -season citation is a letter signed without a legible name.Similar to the one he received from Al Wasl Football Club de Dubai directed Maradona.The same Argentine crack who in his farewell recognized that he made mistakes, which was wrong and paid, that football is exempt from faults or crimes that are committed in his name because "the ball does not stain" and nothing has to do with the sportWith all this legion of 'burials of dreams' that goes on the courts making gambetas with the dirty ball.

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Before being Argentine, graduated in sports of the University of Palermo already endors.Provided to everything to achieve that world of comfort with minimal effort, was captured by the Metropolitan Police of Bogotá on August 12, 2008 and made available to the Prosecutor's Office for the crime of traffic, manufacturing and carrying narcotics.Since then his name has not stopped digging himself in judicial files inside and outside the country.So obvious was his failure in that fleet.By then Ozuna, without a weight in the pocket, had its plan B: to carry soccer players from several cities in the country to teams from the south of the continent.Representation contracts of Argentine, Uruguayan, Paraguayan and Bolivian teams were invented;falsified signatures;He cloning stationery and first and second division clubs;He dressed in a suit and dark lenses, and went to charge expensive for unrealizable dreams.On October 27, 2014, the first complaint against the false FIFA agent for the crime of fraud was established in the city of Pereira.According to the information, he cheated several parents with the promise of taking their children to teams such as Boca Juniors, River Plate, San Lorenzo, Banfield and Independiente de Avellaneda.In more than a dozen cities on the Pacific coast and the center of the country there was talk of players scammed by Leandro Ozuna, Jorge Sánchez or Édgar Sánchez, who were actually the same Édgar Humberto Ozuna Sánchez, who fled with money and illusionsof entire families.

Un paso más aberranteCon un ‘negocio’ vulgar, pero floreciente, Ozuna decidió dar un paso más adelante y se convirtió en argentino.The new modality, for which blond hair was painted, dressed as an important person and disguised his Bogota accent with the musical tone of La Pampa, was to take the boys to other countries, collect much more money and then leave them abandoned inHostels.Thus he structured his long judicial record in the sordid world of football trafficking.Records of the judicial authorities in Paraguay say that only between June and August 2017, Ozuna entered that country, where he has five open investigations, about 20 young Colombians, several of them under 18, with the promise that they would playIn football teams. Una vez en suelo guaraní, los llevaba a practicar en cualquier cancha de barrio y los dejaba abandonados en hostales o en hoteles y luego desaparecía.On December 16, 2017, Ozuna was arrested by the Paraguayan police when he tried to cross a checkpoint to Bolivia.Tried to deceive the authorities using a false document.By then there was not yet the arrest warrant issued by Judge Teresa Martínez, the today ParaguayAge - that arrived with an alleged employment contract ”that were false.Although he had managed to flee from Paraguay, without leaving a trace, the elusive ‘Cazatalentos’ final.

Ozuna had taken nine amateur players to play at the Thomas Bata Club of the Second Division of that country and abandoned them in a hostel without paying a penny to the owners.It was finally that complaint that allowed his capture and today the false agent, who said to be a friend of Messi's dad, is arrested in the Quillacollo prison.Michael Narváez, one of the deceived Colombians and who continues to look. “Tenía un tatuaje grande en la espalda que era de un círculo con estrellas, que es como un pacto con el diablo.I had another one that said: ‘I didn't kneel God but the devil’ and a demon in his chest and black moons in his arms had tattooed ”, cuenta.

FIFA representative bus driver

According to a job page recognized in Colombia, Javier Alexánder Neira was a public service driver, from the CoTransniza company in Bogotá, until 2012, but overnight he appeared with a bag and tie offering his services as a footballer agentTo take them to China, Russia, Mexico and Europe.Her first master play made her falsifying Junior documents with which she looked in several countries with technical directors and players to bring them part of the Barranquilla Shark team.However, the curtain collapsed in 2014, when a Spanish technician called the Junior headquarters in the Atlantic capital to know when I should travel to the city to put ahead of the Shark.He knew then that he had been scammed.But while the authorities investigated the adexes of Neira in Barranquilla, in Valledupar it was presented with a huge backdrop in the backRussia and Mexico."He started asking us for money for passports and visas because he told us that as a FIFA agent, things were much easier," said Nelvis Chacón, mother of one of the mocked young people.However, the expert at the wheel escaped at high speed and did not manage to avoid these families that took place in money that they invested in the false project.In those days he created a blog in which he embraced an autographed shirt from the Colombian National Team and with which he was self -life as an authorized agent of FIFA to perform players transactions for Atlético de Madrid (Spain) and to FK Karpaty (Croatia).Several months later he reappeared in Bogotá in a training center assuring Jorge Luis Lara, a skilled player who was in Central America, who needed him for his team in China.Eight thousand dollars after initiated the procedures with the player and his representative, disappeared again without leaving the minimum trace.

Ten players from different places in the country say that they gave Javier Neira US $ 1500 dollars each to take them to the lower divisions of Atlético de Madrid.

The goals that never reached Italian calcium

Already the families of dozens of scammed players in the department of Cesar had taken for granted the deception of the false promoter of soccer players and had assumed it with resignation.However, weeks after the false cazatalentos and alleged representative of soccer players Manuel Gómez had disappeared, he used the credit card of one of his victims in Medellín.In the midst of the scandal, Quegómez was fleeing and that he had promised the families of 30 athletes of Cesar take them to Italy to integrate teams from different calcium divisions."He cheated not only the players, but the executives of the Cesar Football League and owners of football academies with the story that he would do the procedures and we are still waiting," said Luis Mendoza.

False contracts for Mexico and Panama

The theater and the scenes that Jorge Andrés Ruiz set up in Cartagena, after cheating players in Bogotá, Fusagasugá, Cesar and Apartadó, was infallible.Alquiló una cancha de fútbol, contrató a dos asistentes para que coordinaran su proyecto y rentó una casahogar para albergar allí a los jugadores más talentosos y a quienes llevaría a jugara los equipos Nicolás Romero y San Pacho de México, así como el J&J de Panamá.Each one charged $ 2.800.000 For procedures in full pandemic, and with a false letter from the Foreign Ministry made them believe that they would travel on a humanitarian flight.But the Panama team was a neighborhood team that did not compete anywhere and the paintings of Mexico were more soccer schools than professional teams where they did not know it.What he did was that he falsified letters and signatures, and fled with more than $ 55 million Bolivarian youth of limited resources.

Several months after 14 of their players were scammed by Carlos Velásquez, a false cazatalentos that would lead them to reinforce the second division of Venezuelan football, came to the court of the 12 de Octubre neighborhood, in the east of Cali, three 'agents'conThe promise of taking them to play the Dominican Republic.Tanned with that first deception, Jeisson Perea, former player of Tuluá and technician ad honorem (without salary) of the Gamboa F team, decided.C., assume the representation of his players and traveled to the Dominican Republic in search of an opportunity.But on his return he found another even more sad reality: the doors are open to live ‘the Central American dream’, but there is no support for the boys to travel, all of limited resources, to pursue that illusion.¿Cómo terminan siendo estafados estos catorce muchachos? En el afán mío de ver mis jugadores triunfar, porque los quiero ver triunfando, se me acerca el señor Carlos Velásquez, venezolano, me cita a una reunión y me dice que necesita jugadores para ciertos equipos; yo al ver que aquí me les cerraron las puertas a muchos de ellos, tomo la decisión de trabajar con el señor.He asks us for an amount of money for tickets, presents international cards of the equipment, reviewed, cards of equipment such as the AIFI or Academy of Venezuela, and when traveling, it disappeared with the money.¿En qué momento se enteraron ustedes de la estafa?Cuando se supone que los muchachos iban a viajar, yo mando a un amigo para que recoja al señor Velásquez en el aeropuerto, que llegaba en el vuelo de las 5:00 p.m.From Barranquilla to Cali, and I find the sad reality that this person did not arrive and that I have been scammed and that my players have been scammed.The money does not hurt, my fourteen players hurts me.¿Qué tan común son en el fútbol aficionado este tipo de engaños?Hay jugadores en Tumaco, en Chocó que los sacan con mentiras;hay padres que se meten en deudas con el ‘gota a gota’ para patrocinar a sus hijos,para que una persona venga y se le robe ese dinero: queda la familia con elproblema para pagar la deuda y el problema que tiene el hijo ahí todavía.That is called play with these players' dream.Also with that of their families...I explain it to you in this way: when Argentina calls Messi, the whole country is hopeful in him to win a World Cup;When Colombia calls James or Falcao, we want to win the game in their shadow.The same does the family when the child sends to train.Sometimes the decomplete mother of lunch to give her the passage, and the mother begins to pray because the number one fan is the mother. ¿Cómo fue ese segundo intento de estafa a sus jugadores?Estamos entrenado y llegan ciertas personas y llaman a cuatro jugadores diferentes; les dicen que tienen cupo en Honduras y en República Dominicana, pero hay que pagar diez millones de pesos.They give you a contract, give you breakfast and give you housing, and my players go and they communicate that.I have friends who play in the Dominican Republic and tell Alonso Umaña that there are some gentlemen here who say they charge, and that the quotas, and told me ‘here they charge nothing’.That motivates me to travel.¿Cómo se gesta ese viaje y con qué propósito lo hace?Un día estaba durmiendo y me pica un zancudo; me paro buscándolo y estaba pegado al lado de mi hija.I kill the zancudo and could not sleep;And I do something so important in life, that from that promised moment eight days to do it, and it is the prayer of 3:00 to.m.;I begin to pray and in the last the one who accompanies the prayer says: ‘Maybe there is something that afflicts you, some problem torments you, but do not worry, God will solve it to you’ and that day I decided to travel.I speak with my lady and I tell her that I will go to the Dominican Republic because I know that there will open the doors for my players. ¿Qué encontró en República Dominicana y sí obtuvo resultados?Fue muy bonito todo lo que me pasó y hasta hoy seguimos a la espera de que Dios toque las puertas del esfuerzo que se hizo.But I think the first objective that was to unmask these people who come to cheat the players charging for a quota.I met players there that have charged them up to $ 20 million to take them and never played.What will you have done that boy's.And the other is that one is with opportunities, but there is no support.

¿A qué tipo de apoyo se refiere?A mí me dan ganas de llorar porque sé que tengo buen material en mi equipo y se lo he dicho a mis jugadores: el equipo tal tiene este jugador, usted es mejor que él, pero en este momento no tengo los recursos para ponerte ahí.There are players who have the opportunity to go, but we don't have for tickets.They are humble boys that many come to training without breakfast.When a player does not yield and tells you, ‘teacher, I have not had breakfast’, living that experience is very hard. Es triste, pero esa falta de apoyo ha sido una constante en el fútbol...What am I going to tell you is going to sound strong, but whoever supports football, is the person that is on the bad way, the one we call drug trafficker.These people are gone, but one told them, ‘I need a ticket for this player’ and had it.But if I go with a project where the mayor is going to sponsor me?.But to spend $ 500 million to three singers for saying ‘greetings to Cali’ in a video for a virtual fair, for that there is, but for these boys, they have a thousand problems, for them there are no. ¿Qué pasa con estos muchachos que no llegan al profesionalismo?Te digo cuál es la problemática que sigue de ahí, donde el jugador no llegue y llegue otra persona de la otra vida y le haga una propuesta: ‘hay seis millones y hay que ir a postearun man qué hace, qué no hace’; nosotros no queremos seguir viviendo esta guerra, esta injusticia, y como no hay patrocinio, la pobreza y el mismo mal hace que nuestros jóvenes se descarrilen, hacen que nuestros jóvenes se vayan por el lado que no es, y eso es muy lamentable.¿A alguno de sus jugadores les han hecho ofrecimiento?Tengo una anécdota que te va parecer muy pesada.A few years ago the massacre of the bar 44 occurred;Boys who participated in that were my players.When I see the news I am surprised because the player does not have that plan; the player finishes study.But when the player meets the disappointment that he is not, he tends to take two paths;The path of good or the way that is easier right now, the path of evil.That is poverty, poverty leads one to make those mistakes;Poverty is that, and the solution of that poverty is what we have here (he points to the court), but there is no one to say, ‘I help them’.

"In Colombia it turns out that a player is already old at age 20 and there is no chance left"."If the Colombian Football Federation took local tournaments to make the third division, the A and B tournament become more interesting and many young people will feel that their career has not yet ended up".

*This investigation was conducted by El País de Cali de Colombia, La Nación de Paraguay, Opinion of Bolivia and the Latin American Platform of Journalism Connects.