Independiente del Valle’s institutional congratulation for the 98th anniversary of the founding of Barcelona SC sparked intense debate on Monday and Tuesday.

Los Rayados took to social media to greet the Guayaquil club with a controversial post that uses a dog’s face and the caption “serious way”.

He publish de Independiente del Valle has the following message on its Instagram profile: “Greetings to the BIG. We welcome Barcelona SC to 98 years of institutional life”.

As of this Wednesday, the post has more than 12,600 likes.

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The yellow institution announced itself publicly only on Tuesday through its president Carlos Alejandro Alfaro Moreno in the program brand90 in Youtube. However, EL UNIVERSO has learned that the Pichincha club’s announcement caused unease with the director of Barcelona SC.

“They say that they are a club of values, of respect for others, but from what they communicate through their official social networks, it seems that they are not (…). Therefore, they always directly or indirectly disrespect our other football clubs,” said an entity official on Monday who asked not to be identified.

It was only on Tuesday afternoon that Alfaro Moreno publicly addressed the matter and decisively rejected the form of greeting from the social channels of the current Copa Sudamericana and Recopa champions.

“Don’t touch me in the Selection or the dog because my vein is swelling here (neck)… What disrespect for the institution,” said the yellow president.

“I try to handle communication well, and this dog (picture on publish) I almost quoted. I say: what are they putting there?, what’s wrong with them?…”.

And the exasperated Beto Alfaro Moreno abounded: “The day they win 16 titles like us, they will make a rat out of me.” I don’t understand that I am in his place community manager from Barcelona SC, is no longer working today. It is a serious lack of respect for another serious institution that is a friend in quotation marks”.

The statements of the director of the canaries occur at a time of tension with the administration of the black and blue entity, for which Santiago Morales is responsible.

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