The agent of the Fuenlabrada player Hugo Fraile, Rodrigo Fernández Lovelle, ratified this Thursday before the instructor of the file opened by the Spanish Football Federation that The footballers of the Madrid team learned of the positives of the squad in coronavirus at snack time on July 20 at the hotel in A Coruña.
Fernández Lovelle has explained to Efe that the instructor questioned him for about fifteen minutes and, without giving details of his testimony, confirmed that he related what he had already stated in the interviews that he previously granted to different media. “Let everyone rest assured that I told the whole truth, that I already know that someone had doubts“said the representative, who confirmed to the instructor that the Fuenlabrada footballers learned of the cases of COVID-19 on the expedition when they were having a snack at the team's concentration hotel in the Galician city on the day of the suspended match with the Sports.
Lovelle indicated that at the time, when asked about his client, he provided this information “naturally because he did not give it any importance” since, he maintains, “like” he knew it “everyone” and, in fact, accurate, this was also indicated by the captains of the Fuenlabren team in statements to journalists.
In addition to Lovelle, Fuenlabrada player Hugo Fraile was cited by the instructor; the Madrid team doctor and its president, Jonathan Praena. Likewise, he quoted, at the request of Fuenlabrada, the club's general director, its sports director, the security director, the delegate and the three captains: Juanma Marrero, Mikel Iribas and Cristóbal Márquez.
The instructor also agreed to the statement of the president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas; Bermúdez de Castro, attached to the presidency; the head of the LaLiga presidential cabinet, Víctor Manuel Martín Ortega; and the LaLiga inspector assigned to the Madrid team, José Miguel Valdés. Likewise, the instructor agreed to one of Deportivo's requests, that the AFE union reported, anonymously, if it received complaints from a footballer from Fuenlabrada in relation to the breach of sanitary protocols by the Madrid club.