Severe crossover between Pique and Casillas over supposed refereeing benefits Barcelona allegedly received

In recent hours, a scandal has rocked Spanish football over Barcelona’s alleged payments to referees so that they can favor them. This would have happened for 17 years between 2001 and 2018 and the president of La Liga, Javier Tebasadvised that if necessary, the matter will be reported to FIFA and UEFA. To this panorama was added a spicy round trip between two former footballers and Iberian emblems, Gerard Pique (Barcelona) and Iker Casillas (Real Madrid).

The hot dialogue was in a streaming transmission of the Kings League, the football competition organized by the company of the former Barça defender and in which one of the teams belongs to the former goalkeeper of the team of the Meringue. Both know each other well and trust each other since they were also teammates in the Spanish team which was world champion in South Africa 2010 and Euro 2012.

With complicity and malice for the Chicanas between the two, a heated debate ensued. Casillas is the one who put the issue on the table and fired: “I heard something from some referees or something like that. I ask out of ignorance. What about the referees and Barcelona? I miss it.”

For his part, Pique replied: “There is a lot of noise, but it’s nothing.” While arguing the opinion of Javier Enriquez, which we saw arriving with the referees at Camp Nou: “What’s up? Advisory services. Is it something illegal? If we start pulling the rug out from under us with the Champions League and UEFA, Madrid will come out everywhere.”

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“Barca and Madrid have always benefited the most from it and we’ve always said that,” admitted Pique. “Wait a second. For a team to go two years without a penalty or a red card is unbelievable in football, ‘machine’. What is going on? They don’t come to our area with that tiki taka. Because we arrived, huh,” Casillas condemned.

To redouble the bet, Pique recalled that “against Atlético a League was lost at Camp Nou during this period because of a badly disallowed goal”. And he added: “From Madrid they redirect everything and that’s what they do. If the news were to go the other way, in 12 hours no one knows anything and it disappears.”

There were also darts between the two on historic games that their teams have benefited from. By case Casillas claimed that there was no foul before the free kick from Ronald Coeman who gave him his first Champions League in 1992. Pique himself, who assured that Predrag Mijatovic he was in front when he converted the goal that gave the crown to the real Madrid in the same tournament in 1998.

Joan Laporta responded to Javier Tebas (AP Photo/Joan Monfort, File)
Joan Laporta responded to Javier Tebas (AP Photo/Joan Monfort, File)

The program What are you playing at Since BE chain de Barcelona denounced that Barcelona had paid nearly 7 million dollars to the then vice-president of the entity that brings together Spanish referees, the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA), Jose Maria Enriquez Negreirasupposedly (according to some former managers now claim), to point out aspects related to the judge who was to lead the Barça team and, others, to the regulations. In an interview with GlobeLiveMedia, Siqué Rodríguez, the journalist who exposed this problem, told all the details.

also his son Javier Enriquezaccused of Barcelona for alleged advice, but via another company, ‘Soccer Cam’ and this Monday the program The beach bar He recalled an image in which he is seen entering the Camp Nou in 2015 and speaking with the fourth referee, Fernando Roman Roman. The capture was posted on the show’s social media.

The bomb exploded in Spanish football and Tebas himself condemned that if Laporta »It doesn’t quite explain why it was paid, I think so (I should quit)”. He Spanish from Barcelona He also expressed his concern in a press release and this case recalls what happened with the match fixing of the Juventus that in 2006 he lost the category due to recordings that confirmed these facts.

Finally, the current president of Barcelona, John LaportaHe replied to the president of La Liga and assured: “Thebes always appears recurrently to destabilize us. I will not give him the pleasure: FC Barcelona is one of its members. Whoever decides to defile the history of the club will have a forceful response. We will not allow them to taint our history.”.

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