2023-04-18 09:21:00
FC Barcelona is sailing in the middle of a storm. The Blaugranas are on the verge of winning La Liga for the first time since 2019 but the club is more than ever mired in the Negreira affair, named following this former senior Spanish referee who is said to have received large sums of money. money via his company DASNIL 95 between 2001 and 2018.
If the current president of Barça, Joan Laporta has once once more denied the accusations considering that FC Barcelona has “never did anything to gain a sporting advantage”UEFA has taken up the case and is carrying out its investigation into a potential “violation of the legal framework” which governs the European association of clubs.
If Laporta is confident that the Catalan club will not be sanctioned, according to information from AS, UEFA would not agree and might override its own ethics and disciplinary committee to deprive the Blaugrana club. of the Champions League next year by going directly to the Court of Appeal.
UEFA might do so if the findings of its investigation show a violation of its legal framework. The Court of Appeal is responsible for “rule on particularly urgent cases submitted to it directly by the president of the control, ethics and disciplinary body”, she informs on her website. If the European association takes the case to the Court of Appeal, FC Barcelona will be able to appeal the decision to the same body. And if he does not win his case, the club might still go to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to validate his right to participate in the European Cup next season.
Described as a “regime club”, Real Madrid reacts curtly
Also in Spain, the investigation is ongoing. If evidence of corruption is proven, Barça might lose all its titles acquired between 2001 and 2018, the dates of the payments, and be excluded from future competitions. For its part, Real Madrid, which met urgently in mid-March, had asked “be part of the investigative procedure when the judge opens it up to injured parties.”
A request that did not please Joan Laporta who described the Madrid club as “diet club” in reference to the dictatorial regime of Franco (between 1936 and 1975) during his speech this Monday to the press, accusing the club of the capital of having been “favored by arbitration decisions for years and still today”.
In a video posted on the club’s social media, Real Madrid reacted scathingly. Faced with Laporta’s remarks, the Merengues first asked the following question: “Who is the club of the regime?”
Several video extracts were then broadcast, showing the inauguration of the Camp Nou by a general minister of Franco on September 24, 1957, but also decorations given to Franco himself: “Barcelona awarded the ‘oro y Brillantes’ badges to Franco […] Barcelona named Franco honorary socio […] Barcelona were saved from bankruptcy three times by Franco […] Barcelona won 8 Ligas and 9 Spanish Cup (called Copa Generalismo at the time of Franco, Editor’s note)”further argued Real Madrid, who at the same time defended themselves from having been favored under the Franco regime, “Under Franco, Real Madrid took 15 years to win La Liga. Real Madrid was dismantled during the civil war. Players have been murdered, arrested and exiled, as the Santiago Bernabéu documentary recounts.”
Before concluding with a quote from Santiago Bernabéu, mythical president of Real Madrid under the Franco regime: “When I hear that Madrid was the team of the regime, I want to shit on the father of the person who said it.
An unequivocal response from the Madrid club which will more than ever rekindle tensions between the two clubs.
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