Michael Arroyo: I spoke with Carlos Alfaro Moreno; He did not want to fix and I had to sue in FIFA

“The only thing I have with Barcelona is my demand”. This is how Michael Arroyo summed up his current relationship with the Canarian club, whose president, Carlos Alfaro Moreno, “did not want to settle” due to a debt that the 34-year-old player demands and that he has brought at the behest of FIFA.

“I spoke with Alfaro. He didn’t want to fix it and I had to make another decision. I’m a Barcelona player, but it’s already been two, three years (awaiting payment), and I had to file a lawsuit“Said the Guayaquil footballer, currently without a team, in dialogue this Tuesday with radio Sports area.

In January 2020, Aquiles Álvarez, Barcelona’s sports vice president, said that Arroyo had to “desist from his demand” to be able to play that campaign with the Canaries, who signed him in 2018. The footballer was part of the Ecuadorian champion team last year , scoring a goal and playing nine games, the last one on November 23.

The attacker, who served a six-month suspension for doping since November 2018, demanded through his legal representative the payment of $ 8’396,500, just over half in concept of “damages”, as detailed in early 2020 the lawyer Santiago Zambrano Solano.

This Tuesday, Arroyo added in statements that the website collects Soccer Ecuador: “I am a free player. The pass is mine. I have a lawsuit with Barcelona, ​​since they did not fulfill my contract. The only thing I have with Barcelona is my demand, which went to FIFA, because they did not want to settle in a good way ”.

Arroyo trained this December with Liga de Quito, a club whose coach, Pablo Marini, highlighted the soccer virtues of the Guayaquil native, but has not signed him. “I want to play in the league“, be sincere.

Gambetita joined Barcelona for the second stage in 2018; He did not appear in 2019 (due to the sanction) and was reinstated for 2020, being part of the championship achieved. He was also a Canarian in 2012 and 2013, the first year achieving the national title.

Arroyo was formed at Emelec and debuted in first class in 2005, according to the records page of the Ecuadorian Soccer Federation.

He was monarch of Ecuador also with Deportivo Quito in 2009.

He was a member of other foreign clubs such as the Mexican San Luis, Atlante, America and the Brazilian Gremio.

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“There is no possibility of reaching the league. We already talked about it, thanking the teacher (Marini) and the people from Liga, I returned calmly to Guayaquil. I had the teacher in Atlante, in Mexican soccer; We always had a very close friendship, we are great friends. Everyone spoke ill of the teacher. I said thank you very much, but I saw a lot of evil for the possible arrival in the League, I did not want to be hurt, “said Arroyo.

And he sentenced regarding his sanctions for doping: “It’s not that I was a junkie or that I’m a junkie. I did take a cigarette (marijuana, when it was sanctioned in 2007), but people are sometimes wrong. When they see you, they yell at you ‘drug addict’, because I’ve already been marked, but it’s not like that. The truth is, I no longer drink, I am with my family. And it was not suspension for doping (that of 2018); I have the documents that prove it was not cocaine or marijuana, as they say. Everybody talks a thousand things ”. (D)