Besides, He boycotted the protocol act of photo taking with the coaches and captains of the two finalists and refused to appear at the directive dinner.
Madrid’s position was in reaction to the statements of the referees of the final, who denounced pressures about their impartiality by the official television network of the White Club.
The Merengue institution responded to what the judges said with a hard statement published on its website.
“Real Madrid CF considers inadmissible the public demonstrations made For the arbitrators designated for the final of the SM Cup the King to be held tomorrow, April 26, 2025 ″wrote.
Referee in tears
Hours before, the arbitrator designated to direct the final between the two Spanish football giants, Ricardo de Burgos Bengoechea, and one of his attachments, Pablo González Fuertes, They denounced in a press conference the alleged pressures of Real Madrid TV through videos in which their arbitration honesty is questioned.
“You have to know the consequences that these videos have. There are anonymous social networks that insult and threaten without any control“, Denounced the main referee, before getting excited when talking about his son.
“When a son of yours goes to school and returns crying because other children tell him that his father is a thief, he is very fucked up,” he confessed.
“The day I leave here I want my son to be proud of his father and arbitration. There is no right to what many companions are happening,” he said in the voice broken by tears.
There will be end
The current European champion concludes his statement asking that the Spanish Football Federation and the arbitration estate adopt “The corresponding measures in defense of the prestige of the institutions they represent”although he did not specify the nature of these actions.
According to Spanish media, Madrid would have asked the Spanish Federation to designate a new judge for the final planned at the Cartuja Stadium in Seville, dropping the possibility of not appearing to the game, something that was later denied by the white club.
“Given the rumors that have emerged in the last hours, Real Madrid CF communicates that our team has never considered giving up playing the final“He clarified in a second statement.
The succession of facts on Friday, just 24 hours after one of the star matches of the season in Spain, is not precedent in the competition.
To the point that Javier Tebas, president of the League, who does not organize the Copa del Rey, He denounced in a long message in X an attempt by Real Madrid of “power control.”
Atlético de Madrid, on the other hand, considered the situation “unbearable”. “Enough of staining the image of Spanish football ”he said in X.
Instead, FC Barcelona coach Hansi Flick tried to calm the waters: “SIt is sport, soccer (…) Our responsibility is to protect players and all people on the pitch ”.
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