While the world of football continues to mourn the loss of César Luis Menotti and messages continue to flow in memory of the former world champion with Argentina in 1978 and coach of FC Barcelona in the 80s, the former Paraguayan international goalkeeper José Luis Chilavert has left an unpleasant and surprising message to Menotti on his social networks.
Some incendiary words in which he responds to a video from the nineties in which Menotti criticized him and to which he responded with this harsh attack: “We monkeys are still alive and we don't have drug-addicted children. In the 90s we caught them all with Vélez.”
The tension between Menotti and Chilavert dates back several decades, when the goalkeeper played for Vélez and the Argentine was coach of Independiente. In 1998 Menotti charged against the footballer with an unpleasant message: “What should be done with Chilavert is to take him around the schools and universities of Mercosur, so that the kids know what man was like 40 billion years ago. Chilavert comes first, then the monkey and then the human being.”
Almost thirty years later and hours after his death, Chilavert responded to Menotti with this disrespectful reply that has sparked thousands of criticisms on social networks due to the lack of respect for the message and the moment chosen to respond.
This is not the first controversy involving the Paraguayan, who recently attacked Real Madrid player Vinícius Junior on social media for his complaints against racism: “It's pure show. Bread and Circus. The first to insult and attack his rivals is him. "Don't be a faggot, football is for men."
