Peruvian national team players called to vote …

Much of the Peruvian soccer team has been left amid controversy for their open support for Keiko Fujomori in view of the June 6 ballot. The “Put on the Shirt” campaign showed players of the team in videos uploaded to their social networks calling for votes for the daughter of the Peruvian dictator, while warning of the risk of “communism” if Pedro Castillo was imposed.

“I vote for democracy and freedom, I am not voting for communism,” Edison “Orejas” Flores says in a video. Another who joined with a similar message was Boca player Carlos Zambrano.

In fact, the initial suspicion, before hearing the allusions for freedom and against communism, was that it was a campaign for the next Copa América. The Peruvian press affirms that the Federation will not comment on these videos and that it will not communicate with anyone who intends to make electoral usufruct: Keiko Fujimori.

Specifically, Alberto Fujimori’s daughter usually appears in many acts with the team shirt, the same design as River’s, white with a red stripe. “It was a thoughtful decision and in a personal capacity. Everyone is free to do it,” assured sources close to the person chosen on the origin of the campaign, and possible sanctions are excluded. Besides Flores and Zambrano, Jefferson Farfán, Pedro Gallese, Wilder joined Cartagena, Paolo Hurtado, Carlos Zambrano, André Carrillo, Raúl Ruidíaz, Aldo Corzo, Sergio Peña, Miguel Trauco and Luis Advíncula.

The latter already feels a repudiation for their participation. He plays for Rayo Vallecano, of the second division of Spanish football, with a jersey equal to that of the selected. El Rayo is located in Madrid’s Vallecas district, and its fans are known for their defending positions on the left. They even had Ukrainian Roman Zozulya fired for his ultranationalist positions.

“It’s a shame you wear the red stripe, whatever it is. We are counting the days for you to stop dirtying it, ”said a statement from the Rayo peñas. “Everyone has the right to have an opinion, this is not disputed. But the Rayismo questions the honesty of the actions and the respect of Vallecas and its idiosyncrasy. The Strip is not stained!”, Adds the text.

Captain and goalscorer Paolo Guerrero has not joined the campaign, as has Renato Tapia. On Facebook, the writer Diego Trelles Paz, estimated that “Keiko Fujimori has managed to break the national team and keep it away from millions of his fans. They used everyone’s jersey. They stained it irreversibly. Can you imagine the national team? Chilean asking for the return of Pinochetism for the love of the shirt and the pride of being Chilean? “