Aldair Rodríguez spoke to Robert Rojas after the expulsion: “He accepted my apology, he is calm”

Alianza Lima could not make the locality respected and lost by the minimum to River Plate on the first date of the Libertadores Cup. It was the debut of the 'intimates', who until the last tried to tie the match, but failed to do so. One of the players he was able to convert was Aldair Rodríguez, who ended up being the protagonist of a strong entry to Robert Rojas, to the point of seriously injuring him. However, after the match, the same Peruvian striker confessed to talking to the Paraguayan to apologize, which were accepted.

“I had the opportunity to talk to Robert and he accepted my apology. He's calm. He knows that this is a situation that occurs in football. Likewise, he let me know that he didn't feel that I went with bad intentions either and unfortunately that accident happened,” Rodríguez told the press after the morning training of the 'white-blue' cast on Thursday, April 07.

Previously, on the night of last Wednesday 06, when this event occurred, Aldair was interviewed by ESPN in the same concentration hotel of the Argentine institution. The reason was none other than to approach the player to ask for his apologies and regret this terrible event, since it was revealed that the injury is a fracture of the tibia and fibula, as revealed by the 'gaucho' club.

However, that was not all, since the attacker stated that he is not one of those players who usually enter the opponent strong or that he is a recurrent to red cards. “I don't know the point of view of you (journalists), but I don't have that kind of action in my career. I think it's my second red, I don't have a record. I went hard to play, but not with excessive force and never wanting to hurt my teammate,” he said.

Finally, he set aside the criticism received for his actions in the match against the 'Millionario', implying that his intention was never to injure Rojas in that way. “Criticisms are always there, I don't care that. I rest assured that my family knows that I was not with bad intention or desire to harm my partner,” he added.

And it is that Aldair entered in the second half at a point in the match when the 'Victorian' team lost with the goal of Matías Suárez and required to seek a draw. Hence, coach Carlos Bustos determined the departure of Jairo Concha to enter the former Deportivo Binacional in 73 minutes.

Minutes later, he received a ball from Yordy Vilchez, who controlled him in a great way to get a powerful shot that diverted Franco Armani for the corner kick. There he had already warned of his intention to seek equality on the scoreboard.

However, due to his vehemence and momentum that took over his person, as time went on, he went to play a ball with Robert Rojas. The striker stayed behind his back and tried to take it off, but instead he kicked him that destabilized him to the right back, who lay on the playing field. At first, the referee Wilmar Roldán showed him the yellow cardboard, but as he saw that Rojas made obvious signs of pain in his knee, in addition to the fact that his teammates and Pablo Lavandeira himself asked for a stretcher for treatment, he changed his decision. He saved the yellow one to finally show him the red card.

He quickly fell all kinds of criticism for this action. Alianza Lima was left with 10 players shortly after the end of the match, but in addition, the Argentine press itself repudiated the strong foul with several comments towards the national attacker. Some have doubts as to whether there should be a penalty for Aldair, but the apologies and the detail of approaching the affected player has already been given. The other is determined by the corresponding entities.

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