A female UP Fighting Maroons fan admitted confronting DLSU Green Archers head coach Michael “Topex” Robinson over the spitting allegations.
In a social media post that recently went viral, Tricia Endozo-Villanueva said she chased Robinson in the hallways of SM Mall of Asia Arena after the DLSU-UP game on October 6 to question him about allegedly spitting on Fighting Maroons guard Reyland Torres.
“Last night after the UP vs. DLSU game, while waiting for our friends to exit, Coach Topex Robinson passed by in front of me. I grabbed the chance to ask him, ‘Coach, bakit kelangan mandura?’ Obviously, he ignored me,” Endozo-Villanueva said.
“Some DLSU fans asked to take photos with him, so I took the chance to stand beside the photographer to look at him in the eye and ask again, ‘Coach, why did you have to spit on Reyland?’” she added.
Despite repeated questioning, Endozo-Villanueva said Robinson kept ignoring her, which led her to shout, “Walang respeto sa UAAP, coach? Ano, kala nyo dito, ligang labas na sinasalihan nyo?”
Since Robinson continued to ignore her, Endozo-Villanueva said she kept following the Green Archers’ head coach as he was about to take the escalator to the MOA Arena bridgeway.
“I continued hounding them, and by that time, Asst. Coach Caloy Garcia had caught up with them, so I asked him the same question. His way of response to me? A hand motion saying, ‘It wasn’t me’ then pointed to Topex,” she said.
“See, even he knows who did what. He could have denied it categorically when he had the chance. A guilty person will avoid answering a direct question, hoping it will go away. Except it wouldn’t,” Endozo-Villanueva concluded.
Reacting to Endozo-Villanueva’s questioning, Robinson said in a Saturday night press conference that he deliberately ignored her because he was with his family when she was pressing him.
“Dun sa taong sumigaw sa akin dun sa MOA, Mrs. Villanueva, ‘yung pinahiya niyo ako sa harap ng pamilya ko, sa harap ng tao, inaakusahan niyo ako,” Robinson said. “Hindi ko kayo masagot kasi hindi po talaga ako gumawa nun.”
“But sana po pag nagkita tayo meron din po kayong lakas ng loob na magsabi sa akin na mali po ‘yung inakusa niyo sa akin. Sana po manindigan kayo,” he added. “‘Yung huhusgahan niyo po ako ng hindi niyo nalalaman ‘yung buong storya, siyempre po masakit din po para sa akin.”
Robinson faced backlash after a video appeared to show him spitting at Torres during the Green Archers’ 68-56 victory over the Fighting Maroons last week at the SM Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City.
The Fighting Maroons filed a protest with UAAP executive director Rebo Saguisag regarding the incident, submitting video evidence of the alleged spitting. However, the league decided to issue only “a stern formal warning” to both Torres and Robinson.
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