Quique Pina and Carlos Suárez, presidents of Granada and Valladolid in the 2013/2014 season, respectively, said on Monday that they had information about their football environment that Osasuna was making at the end of the season movements to rig games or to give priority to third parties in order to save the category in First Division.
“I had heard that Osasuna was moving, it is information that I have my surroundings, of my sports director -Juan Carlos Cordero-, I talked with players, there was atmosphere warning that he was commenting,” Pina said in his statement as a witness in the Osasuna case trial and has confirmed that he transferred the information he had to the president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas.
The former president of Granada has stressed that Juan Carlos Cordero “He had calls from football people” who warned him of this possibility and that “it was said” that Osasuna had agreed to a draw against Espanyol and that he would win the last match against Betis .
Thus, he explained that he was personally with the then Betis player Antonio Amaya, accused in this case, and that he asked him that on the last day against Osasuna “do their utmost so that what they said would happen would not happen.” “He told me that he had not commented on it. He denied me the existence of an agreement. He, as a Betis player, told me that nothing about Osasuna had come to him,” he said.
However, Quique Pina has explained that, by putting his information in the knowledge of Thebes, “he intended by all means that before the game everyone was paralyzed if there was anything, that the parties were normal.”
For his part, the former president of Valladolid Carlos Suárez, who has also testified, has said that he was aware that Osasuna was moving to try to agree on matches because Alberto Marcos, then sports director of the Blanquivioleta team, and later spoke with Javier Tebas, who in turn, as indicated, also handled information on these facts.
Suárez, Marcos and Tebas contacted Espanyol as a “decoy”
Carlos Suarez has said he has “no idea” of who provided the information to Alberto Marcos and has considered that “after 19 years as a professional, I suppose he would have his contacts in the locker room.” The businessman has assured that, according to his information, Osasuna first tried to “buy” the match against Espanyol, but finally “they agreed the tie, which was worth to Espanyol for permanence, and Osasuna was worth it if the rest of the results coincided.”
In this context, he stressed that Alberto Marcos, Javier Tebas and himself decided to contact Espanyol, as a “decoy”, to see if he accepted a bonus for winning the game against Osasuna to gather information. However, in Espanyol they rejected that option because “they had already reached an agreement with Osasuna”. Carlos Suarez has pointed out that the contact in the Catalan team was striker Sergio Garcia. “I told the president of LaLiga that he had a good relationship with Sergio García's agent and that he could call him to try to change his mind,” he said.
“I still lose and take those gulfs of Osasuna with me”
He then reported that he knew that Osasuna had offered a bonus to Betis players for winning against Valladolid because Jordi Figueras confirmed it – then Betis player and accused in the trial. However, the defense lawyer has told him that in none of his two statements in the investigation phase he spoke of this fact. Suarez has said, however, that Figueras did not tell him that he had met with members of Osasuna or that he had collected premiums from the Navarrese club.
In addition, Suarez has denied that his club tried to make Betis win when the faces were seen. “Not only did I not try to buy any Betis game but I have not tried to buy a game in my life,” he has settled, very upset with the lawyer who asked him that question, which has come to qualify as a “stupidity.”
He has also responded on a mobile message that he sent to Javier Thebes saying: 'I still lose and take those gulfs of Osasuna with me'. Suarez has denied that this message was related to the last game of Valladolid, which effectively lost his team. “I mean we had to catch them, if we showed that they were doing it they should have descended to Osasuna,” he said, denying any animosity towards the Navarrese club, but the movements to agree results.
Sisi warns that he had no information and that Thebes offered to “protect” his contract so he could speak
On the other hand, he has clarified that the then Osasuna player Sisinio Fernández, 'Sisi', was trying to gather information through the 'reddish' captains about the movements that the Navarrese club was making with third teams and said that Javier Tebas He offered to “protect” Sisi's contract so he could talk about what was happening. This protection did not materialize because the player “should not have said anything”.
On the other hand, this Monday, in his statement as a witness, Sisi has explained that he had no information about threats and that he also did not call Valladolid to warn him. In addition, he has said that people, whose identity he does not remember, offered to cover his contract in exchange for talking about these facts, something he rejected but in this case coincides with what was contributed about Thebes.
Sisi has affirmed, during his testimony as a witness, that “at no time” he called Valladolidad to report on the movement of possible damage. “First, I don't know anything, and second, Osasuna plays down. I love Valladolid, I have it, I don't know anything and even if I knew I won't put Valladolid in advance so that he who descends be Osasuna, because I have a contract with Osasuna and in addition to going down to Second, my salary goes down, “he said.
The player has reported that he was contacted by the then Valladolid sports director, Alberto Marcos, pointing out that they had information that the match between Espanyol and Osasuna could be rigged and to see if he could talk to Patxi Puñal, captain of Osasuna . “At no time do I call them to say something that I have no idea is going to happen,” he insisted.
Álvarez Izquierdo and Martínez Munuera also saw nothing strange when arbitrating the key parties
The referee Alfonso Álvarez Izquierdo, who led the Betis-Valladolid of the 2013-2014 season, and the referee Juan Martínez Munuera, who led the Osasuna-Betis, have stated Monday that they saw nothing strange or remarkable during these two matches that are under suspicion of size.
Álvarez Izquierdo, who has testified as a witness in the trial of the Osasuna case, saw nothing that caught his attention in Betis-Valladolid. “As I said at the time, I saw that Betis did not make a good campaign, and I saw wanting to say goodbye to his fans with a victory, nothing more, I did not see anything abnormal. Those games at the end of the season always have a little more intensity for what they are playing, “he said.
For his part, Martínez Munuera, who refereed the Osasuna-Betis, also does not remember anything strange about this match and that same season he directed other matches of the Verdiblanco team and did not see anything different from the rest of El Sadar. As he said, the most remarkable thing about the meeting was that a part of the stands collapsed.
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