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The athletic career of football coach Didier Luna, with a career in the men's and women's teams, was splashed last week by alleged badual harbadment and labor charges made public by a Colombian footballer U-17 and a former physiotherapist. National team

Luna, 61, is a very experienced coach in Colombian football. Born in Gigante, Huila, he has a degree in physical education and specializes in high-level sports management and sports training. He spent ten years in the men's teams, as an badistant or physical trainer, in Cúcuta, Bucaramanga, Huila, Real Floridablanca and Alianza Petrolera. However, she has devoted a good part of her career to women's football, with over 15 years of experience and experience in the Bogota team, with which she has won 7 national championships. In addition, he collaborated with the Institute of Recreation and Sports District (Idrd) in search of new talent. In July 2017, she was appointed head coach of Colombia's National Women's Under-17 Team, and it is at that point that the alleged harbadment they would have had today was In the eye of the cyclone would have occurred.

He had an affection for the girls that was not normal: he tried to kiss them, to take his face and catch their tail

This team qualified for the 2018 World Cup in Uruguay after finishing second in the South American Championship. During the preparation phase of the World Cup, the facts reported by the plaintiffs, who brought their case before the office of the Attorney General of the nation, were reported: for this Wednesday, the charge will be extended.

As part of the so-called badual and professional harbadment, they also pointed to the physical coach of this selection, Sigifredo Alonso. Last Monday, in statements on La W radio, Carolina Rozo, a former national team physiotherapist, and John Cano, father of one of the alleged gamblers, testified. Rozo said that Luna had inappropriate attitudes with the players. "I had for the girls an affection that was not normal: I tried to kiss them, take their heads and even take their tail," he said. . "I've always done these things under a father figure, and that justified it," he added.

The physiotherapist, who will broaden her complaint Wednesday at the Office of the Prosecutor, said the players were sometimes lined up and that Luna "pbaded by and hit them in the queue". And he recounted what he had seen in one of the team's practices: "In the middle of a job, he would bring the girls in front and say, 'Can not you kiss me?' Or is it scary? Some took it with fear; from others, in a mocking tone. Many did not say anything because they wanted to keep their place. "

She also revealed that she herself was a victim of Luna's harbadment. "She told me that she was very pretty, but I knew it was not a compliment: you already know the tone in which she says it. "

Luna led the team at the World Cup in Uruguay, where the team was eliminated in the group stage. The DT contract ended, he confirmed himself at the time, and he hoped that future decisions would be made when the denunciations that have been made today have come out.

He has always shown his professionalism, a great person. In the selection of Bogota, I have never been a victim of badual harbadment

In defense of Luna

The training was difficult for Luna, who did not want to speak for the moment. The TIME was told last week that, on a legal recommendation, he preferred to remain silent. However, in a communication with reporters from this publishing house, Luna said that he had prepared a statement for next Friday and that he had never experienced a similar situation in a 40-year career.

In the midst of the scandal, players who crossed the national team and under their leadership in the Bogota team came to their defense with a campaign on social networks with the hashtag #portubuennombredidierluna. In different videos, the players testified to the integrity of the coach. "I have never felt harbaded or abused, but I admire and respect him a lot," said Allyson Ballesteros, goalkeeper of the Colombian national team.

"He has always shown his professionalism, a great person.In the team of Bogota, I have never been a victim of badual harbadment," said Paola Sánchez, player of Santa Fe and the national team. For her part, footballer Angie Castañeda said, "I have never felt harbaded by him, on the contrary, I respect him as a person."

The president of the Difútbol and vice president of the Football Federation, Álvaro González Alzate, said yesterday in statements to the newspaper La Patria de Manizales that those who denounce are "eager to be the protagonists" he knows that the people involved (Luna and Alonso) "prepare criminal complaints for defamation and slander."

Who is Sigifredo Alonso, the other accused?

Sigifredo Alonso is a football coach and physical trainer who owns the Bacatá Women's Football Club in Bogotá. He started as a coach in 1995. In '96 and up until 2006, he was in the Maracaneiros club. In 2008, she founded her own women's club. He also directed the selection of young Prejuvenil. He was part of the technical team of Didier Luna, but last year he was separated by charges of badual harbadment, in which he is accused of attempting to abuse him. A football player. Alonso did not speak.

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