MADRID, 18 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Sevilla FC decided this Wednesday to “cut institutional relations” with Real Betis Balompié, after the complaint against three players from the Seville entity that seeks to “deliberately harm and harm” the Sevillistas and that creates “a dangerous precedent in everything.” “Spanish football”
“Our entity has decided to sever relations with Real Betis, as we do not understand that such relations can remain in force when the leaders of the green and white entity have deliberately and consciously sought harm to our club,” the club said on its website.
Specifically, the Seville entity referred to the complaint by Betis against the Sevillistas Isaac Romero, Juanlu and José Ángel Carmona for holding up, after the Sevilla-Celta match this Saturday, a banner with the Betis shield crossed out. “That, and no other, to harm and harm Sevilla FC in sports, was the purpose of denouncing extra-sporting behavior before competition courts. Consequences that the Verdiblanca entity was well aware of,” he criticized.
Thus, Sevilla expressed “its disappointment in the inappropriate attitude of the Betis leaders”, as well as “its disappointment with the decisions of the federative committees, decisions that, furthermore, although a posteriori and outside the sanction period, have been provisionally suspended by the ordinary justice system”.
The Nervionense club believes that this complaint “before the federative organizations and not before the Anti-Violence Commission breaks an important code and sets a dangerous precedent, since it seeks sporting punishments through non-sporting events.” “The reported events are in the context of a celebration of a match of the greatest rivalry, on one’s own field, and without any offensive purpose, and it is not understood that they can be interpreted as generating violence,” the statement defended.
“It is surprising that the green and white club does not understand these events within the framework of rivalry and healthy Sevillian sportsmanship. And it is equally surprising the decision of the Federative Committees sanctioning these events in sporting terms, establishing a dangerous precedent in all of Spanish football,” they added from the Seville.
And the entity recalled that it did have “high-mindedness in similar cases”, recalling the episode of the throwing of a stick from the stands in a Seville derby that impacted Joan Jordán, in January 2022. “Players or even managers of Betis publicly mocked Sevilla FC players, understanding that certain excesses and even offenses should remain in the context of the celebrations, even if they were signs of lack of education and decorum,” he warned.
“Sevilla considers that the leaders of Betis have not lived up to the circumstances, the institution they represent or their fans, who have known how to interpret the situation at hand much better; an institution and fans to which the Seville shows, as always, its total respect,” the text continued.
The Seville entity stated that “it understood this type of behavior and reactions of Betis leaders to be past and forgotten”, since they believe that they are “more typical of other times than of the current one, a time in which cordiality reigned between both entities.” .
“Sevilla has been able to confirm that it understands the relations between both clubs in a very different way, which should be cordial and respectful within the healthy framework of our sporting rivalry. A framework that Betis has decided to transgress in a disappointing way to seek sporting benefits beyond of the playing fields,” the statement concluded.