National Soccer
The national champion will play this Wednesday, March 5 against Deportivo Achuapa at the start of the second round of the championship, but will do so conditioned by the casualties he suffered against communications.
Xelajú MC suffered up to five expulsions against communications. (Free Press Photo: Douglas Suruy)
The National Soccer League of Guatemala begins this Wednesday, March 5, the second round of the Clausura 2025 tournament and among the duels that will take place on this date is the current champion, the Xelajú MC.
The Quetzalteco team will be receiving on the court of the Mario Camposeco stadium to Deportivo Achuapa, a rival against whom it will surely seek to charge the defeat he suffered on the first day of the championship.
Xelajú MC seeks to leave behind the irregular first round he made, where just He obtained three victories, signed three other draws and lost four games.
However, the main challenge of the Quetzalteco team will be to face Deportivo Achuapa under the following condition: It will have several low results of those expelled before communications FC.
In the duel against Communications Jorge Aparicio, he was expelled after having cut a promising goal for the Albo team, but with the party finished the referee Orlando Alvarado took up to four more reds.
One was for the technician Amarini Villatoro and the others for Harold Cumming, José Calderón and Luis Cardona.
As expressed by the players and coach of Xelajú after the game, they were expelled for expressing their dissatisfaction with the decisions made by the referee during the 90 minutes.
A few days after the facts, the disciplinary organ gave him a suspension of Four games to the Villatoro coach (and a fine of Q10 thousand), in addition to suspending Cummings, Aparicio and Calderón for a game, while Cardona for two.