The nexus between Mexican soccer and organized crime VIDEO | Football24 News English

The world of football and from organized crime They seem to be alien entities to each other, however, they are not completely. And is that the mexican sport It has had several chapters where both are related, making it clear that they are closer than we imagine.

There are the episodes of when Jared Borgetti attended the Francisco Rafael Arellano Félix party, same in which the famous capo lost his life after being shot by a criminal who attended the event dressed as a clown; or the time the owner of the Raccoons team of New Italy was detained at the premises of the America club for his relationship with criminal groups. So here we present you some cases.

Borgetti and the Arellano Félix

A great scandal broke out in 2013 when the Zeta Weekly made known that Jared borgetti was as a guest at the party of Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix, who was one of the Tijuana cartel leaders; even, the publication published an image of the scorer of El Tri with the then celebrated, who finally lost his life at that party celebrating his 63rd birthday, after a man dressed as a clown enter and he will unload his firearm against him.

Likewise, it was revealed that at that party, which ended in tragedy, the youngest son of Julio Cesar Chavez, Omar, who was accompanied by a group of ten people, according to the weekly.

New Italy Raccoons and the Knights Templar

It was on October 8, 2008 when a strong operation of the I SIT and the AFI was felt in the facilities of the America club in Coapa. And it is that the authorities met to capture the owner of the team New Italy Raccoons, the michoacano Wenceslao Alvarez Alvarez, who was first linked with The Michoacan Family Y The Zetas; However, after several years in jail in Mexico, in 2017 he was extradited to the United States, designated as head of the plaza in Nueva Italia, Michoacán, for The Knights Templar, and was sentenced in Georgia for crimes of criminal association, against health and money laundering.

El Mágic Mendoza and the Narco Juniors

Mexican soccer went into mourning on November 2, 2008, when the soccer player Juan David “El Mágic” Mendoza lost his life after being shot while driving a luxury truck, when leaving the parking lot of the Three of March Stadium, property to which there was attended as a fan to watch a match between Tecos and America.

According to Jalisco State Attorney General’s Office, at the time of his death the Magic He was accompanied in the truck by the former footballer Miguel Angel Zepeda Espinoza, as well as by Omar Caro Urias, cousin of the founder of the Guadalajara Cartel, Rafael Caro Quintero, and by Raul Flores Castro, son of Raul Flores Hernandez. Also went Victor Manuel Carranza Zepeda, who was arrested in 2012 in Zapopan, accused of robbery to house-room.

El Gato Ortiz and the Gulf Cartel

A major surprise took all of Mexico when on January 7, 2012, the goalkeeper Omar “Gato” Ortiz was arrested when he was identified as a member of a gang of kidnappers in the municipality of San nicolas de los heros, in Monterrey, which was linked to Gulf Cartel.

At that time, the goalkeeper was off the court because was serving a ban for use of prohibited substances when he was an archer of Striped; the Ortiz cat is in prison, after on January 8, 2019 received a 75-year prison sentence after being found guilty of three kidnappings.

Carlos Ahumada and the Colombians

The Argentinian Carlos Ahumada broke into Mexican soccer in 2002 when it bought the Club Leon and a year later at Santos Laguna, teams that ended up leaving in ruin and that even the Secretary of Finance he had to seize after the video scandals in 2004 with the politician René Bejarano.

Smoked was pointed out by the Colombian chain RCN and MundoFox and having obtained 94 thousand dollars from organized crime groups in that country, same as washed in Mexicoor when he owned the Aztec clubs.

In addition, the Argentine was linked with the drug trafficker Jose Tirso Martinez, who in 2014 was learned by the authorities for his links with the Juarez cartel and for money laundering through soccer teams like Queretaro, Irapuato Y Celaya.