This Monday, Confidencial has brought to light a series of audios of conversations held by the president of the RFEF, Louis Rubiales, and the Barcelona player Gerard Piqué, in relation to the idea of taking the Spanish Super Cup to Saudi Arabia and the distribution of the money and the commissions that they were going to pay for the tournament to be played there.
In one of those talks, Rubiales jokes with Piqué, with a phrase that has outraged the followers of the Atletico Madrid. The transcript of that audio, to put it in context, is as follows: “Let’s see, Geri, look. I’m going to talk about this with Madrid too. I think Madrid is going to say no to me. As Madrid is going to tell me no, that comes to us from fucking mother, to justify ourselves for the future and we say that it is the stadium with the largest capacity (Camp Nou), that it is the champion of the League (Barcelona), that it is the Cup champion or Cup finalist… I think we have legitimacy, you know?”, says Rubiales. And continues: “Tomás says that Atlético de Madrid is going to win the league. That I have it here next to me… poor thing. Well I think it would be a good idea and do it all there. But of course, it would be doing everything there knowing that you rent… maybe, instead of renting for half a kilo each game, you can rent it for more and get two kilos or two and a half kilos. So, I think that there also has a margin of business for Barça”.
To continue contextualizing, the Tomás that Rubiales refers to seems to be the lawyer Tomas Gonzalez Cuetomember of the legal department of the RFEF and mattress supporter.
This talk between Rubiales and Piqué takes place on March 3, 2019. At that time, Barça was leading the standings with a seven-point advantage over Atlético de Madrid, who were second. And a month later both teams faced each other at the Camp Nou, with those from Valverde eight points higher. It was a direct duel, because those of Simeone they could get to five in case of victory with seven days still ahead.
Barcelona won 2-0, with a controversial performance by Gil Manzano, who sent Diego Costa off with a direct red card in the 28th minute of the match, with 0-0 on the scoreboard. After receiving a foul that was not pointed out by the Extremadura referee, the Spanish-Brazilian protested and according to the minutes, he was expelled for saying “I shit on your fucking mother”.
However, in the television images the referee explained to the Atletico players that Costa told him “the fucking mother who gave birth to you”, while the allegations presented by Atlético ensured that the phrase pronounced by the striker was “I shit on my fucking mother”. Although it was said that there were audios in which it was heard that Costa had insulted the referee, they never came to light.
In any case, Costa saw the red and Atlético, with a superb cloudresisted until minute 85, when today’s mattress Luis Suarez opened the scoring. In 87′ Messi I would do the second. Simeone’s team, which complained at a press conference about the different treatment received by the players of both teams, was eleven points behind the leader and Diego Costa was banned for eight games.
read also