Why it is hard for me to support the Vinotinto matches in Miami and Barcelona

I find it hard to see how the Venezuelan Football Federation takes advantage of the homesickness of the Venezuelan diaspora abroad by organizing the matches of the National Team, the Vinotinto, in Miami, USA and in Barcelona, ​​Spain, cities icons of the Venezuelan exile.

It is hard for me to understand because the same Venezuelan Football Federation that negotiates the rights of the Vinotinto in these cities that are full of stories of Venezuelans suffering the consequences of living in exile, is the same Federation that enabled the transformation of the image of the Vinotinto and Venezuelan soccer as a whole into a vehicle of propaganda and political corruption for the regime.

It is hard for me also because this Venezuelan Football Federation that today negotiates with the image of the Vinotinto internationally is the same Federation that has allowed and even promoted the political censorship and the end of the soccer careers of many historic stars of the Vinotinto, pushing many of them to leave their country, for their simple exercise of their democratic civil rights.

It is hard for me because this Venezuelan Football Federation doing business in cities like Miami and Barcelona with the Vinotinto, does it without any consideration that in those same cities of the Venezuelan exile are also the new home for those same glories of the Vinotinto that they pushed out of Venezuela due to their political censorship and are trying to erase from the history of Venezuelan football.

It is hard for me because that Venezuelan Football Federation that today intends to sell tickets in US dollars for the games of the Vinotinto to the Venezuelan exile of Barcelona and Miami, is the same Federation that empowered the regime with the control, allowed for the dollarization and  the corruption of Venezuelan football, and will use the most of what it collects not for the players, but to feed its bureaucracy and the partisan politics of a Federation representative of the opprobrious regime.

It's hard for me because that that Venezuelan Football Federation that negotiates agreements around the world is led by a president that for almost 20 years served as the closest collaborator to his predecessor in the position, who was indicted and pleaded guilty of corruption in the US for the FIFAGATE case, and because it has also been the leading collaborator of putting Venezuelan football at the service of a regime whose leaders today have all kinds of accusations and sanctions around the world.

But above all, it's hard for me because, as the Vinotinto that I was and still am, I learned to love my Vinotinto shirt as if it represented the pride, dreams and hopes of people of the country, and Venezuela's people suffering today is enough to not allow merchants of Venezuela's hunger and misery to continue to use our Vinotinto to exploit the Venezuelans anywhere.