LaLiga has accused Actual Madrid of conducting a “cruel marketing campaign” towards referees and supplied its “unequivocal help” to the official branded negligent by the membership over his dealing with of anti-Vinícius Júnior chants this weekend.
Madrid filed a proper grievance with the Spanish Soccer Federation (RFEF) on Monday saying referee Juan Martinez Munuera had “voluntarily and intentionally omitted” crowd chants of “Vinícius, die” from his match report after the membership’s 4-2 win at Osasuna on Saturday.
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The RFEF responded by providing its “whole and unconditional help” to Martinez Munuera, calling the accusations “unfair” and saying the incidents had been recorded by its match delegate at El Sadar.
LaLiga mentioned in an announcement on Wednesday that it comprehensively rejected Madrid’s claims.
“LaLiga’s Govt Fee, which met immediately, needs to precise its absolute rejection of the grievance that Actual Madrid has made towards referee [Juan] Martinez Munuera earlier than the Disciplinary Committee of the Royal Spanish Soccer Federation and specific its unequivocal help for [Munuera] and, by extension, Spanish referees collectively,” it learn.
“LaLiga, as a part of its agency dedication to eradicating all types of violence, racism, xenophobia and intolerance in soccer, recordsdata a grievance with the RFEF’s Disciplinary Committee and with the State Fee towards Violence, Racism, Xenophobia and Intolerance concerning all these incidents which happen in matches within the First and Second Division.
“LaLiga’s Govt Fee considers that this grievance is one more manifestation of the cruel marketing campaign undertaken by Actual Madrid towards Spanish referees, with the presumed intention of placing strain on this group, to be able to acquire a aggressive benefit.
“As indicated and accredited by the Referees’ Technical Committee, Mr. Martinez Munuera’s behaviour was impeccable and was scrupulously consistent with the rules that govern refereeing. Some other interpretation that may be manufactured from the information is just spurious.”
LaLiga and Actual Madrid have clashed over a collection of points in recent times, together with Madrid’s help for the breakaway European Tremendous League and the league’s dealing with of revenue distribution from TV rights.
Madrid have additionally repeatedly expressed their unhappiness with the usual of refereeing in Spain this season, highlighting refereeing errors earlier than and after video games on the membership’s tv channel, Actual Madrid TV.
Final month, Sevilla filed a grievance alleging Madrid had carried out a “marketing campaign of persecution and harassment” towards the officers who took cost of their assembly in LaLiga.