The president of Gymnastics expressed himself about the controversial baptisms: “We are going to install a code of ethics”

the president of Gymnastics and Fencing La Plata, Mariano Cowen, He came out to talk about the so-called “baptisms” of youth players who go up or are promoted to First Division teams, in which there could have been a series of violent episodes.

“In the event that something like this has happened, which I am not aware of, we will obviously make ourselves available to Justice. We are going to install a code of ethics”, assured cow. In addition, the president explained: “I make myself available to everyone as president of the club, I have already spoken and I want to clarify that there was no sexual abuse. We have already started an investigation to report everything and we end the baptisms in Gymnastics.” judgment.

The hypothetical events to which reference is made happened about a year and a half ago, in June 2021 when the club was chaired by Gabriel Pellegrino and tactically led by the duo Mariano Waitress and leandro martini. As it turned out, the professional players formed a group nicknamed “Los Ninjas” and they went too far with the youth players who were promoted to First Division, incorporating a violent welcome. Local rumors even indicate that the family of one of the players, who was a minor at the time, was very close to filing a complaint with the Justice but never actually filed it.

Mauro Boselli’s phrase that questioned these old customs

“Here we have an idea, and this goes down the line Mariano (Andújar) that we don’t like that, it doesn’t make sense. You are ridiculing the boys and the reality is that as long as we are there, it will not happen in Estudiantes,” said the striker and benchmark for students of La Plata.