La Sele lost games to get Pinto fired, ex-manager says, while Navas denies allegation
Jorge Luis Pinto said that the former Costa Rican soccer chief warned him in 2014 that men’s national team players, such as goalkeeper Keylor Navas, threatened to lose matches so that the manager would be fired. “The only communication that the president (of the federation) made to me is that if I continued with the national team, the players would lose three games to get me out,” said the Colombian national coach, during a trial in San José, according to La Nación. Pinto testified through a video conference before a court, as part of a defamation proceeding brought by Navas, Bryan Ru...
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