ANDhe president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, has stated that it is necessary to be “tough and demanding” in the face of verbal violence, insults and disrespect in stadiums because it is the “antecedent” of physical violence, adding that the incident at the Camp Nou with Ronald Koeman, who was rebuked at the exit of the Classic, “should not happen” and that Barcelona “should be more attentive” to avoid it.
“Our strategy before the coronavirus pandemic was to be very harsh with verbal violence and we will continue to be so “because, first, people insult,” get hot “and then there are violent physical incidents, he argued.
We have called and shown our concern, security should have been more present
This has been pronounced in statements to the media, in Saragossa, before participating in a lunch-colloquium with businessmen members of the Leading Company Chamber Club on ‘Technological, political and sports challenges of the sports industry’.
“Going to a field does not give the right, in a chanted way, to insult and disrespect anyone, not because of their sexual condition, or where they live in Spain” or for any other circumstance and you have to be “quite strict with that theme “, he said Thebes, after the return of the public to the stadiums has produced “specific situations of insults”, which had previously been “eradicated”, but which seems to have returned by some groups, he said.
The president of LaLiga has indicated that it is necessary to see “how we can work so that no more happens” and has also made reference to what happened this Sunday, when Koeman He was rebuked when leaving the Camp Nou after losing his team to Real Madrid. “That should not happen, they are security issues for the club, which should be more attentive to that situation. We have called and expressed our concern,” he commented.
Public and hospitality
On the other hand, Javier Tebas has wished that, in addition to having recovered the public in the stadiums, the hotel industry could also be opened inside, because without it “there is still something missing” from “all that experience you have when you go to a football field.”
“The most important thing” is that you can already be in the stadiums, but you also work with the clubs to “see when they allow us to fully open the hospitality industry and everything around a game,” he emphasized.
Asked about the operation of the League this season, after the departure of Messi of Barça, has commented that although “he is the best player in history” and he “would have liked it to continue”, “it is what it is” and it has not affected since “four seasons” were sold in almost all countries and recently an agreement has been reached with some more, “which we will announce” and where “we have had a significant rise” since now we are looking at “more” competition and economic sustainability.
Florentino Pérez and Superliga
Regarding your relationship with the president of Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez, Thebes has acknowledged that they have not improved. “There is not a fluid relationship, far from it”, but there is with the club as an institution because “you have to know how to differentiate”.
There is no fluid relationship, far from it
He has commented that Real Madrid challenges “everything that we approve in the League” and “that shows that the model we have does not like” Florentino Pérez, although the club assembly was recently held and the accounts were approved with the support 39 out of 42. “That says everything about what the League is and where we are going,” he said.
About the Superliga project, Thebes has observed that it is an idea “that is still alive” and has expressed his rejection of it “not because of the concept of competition that they raised”, but because of something “much more dangerous, than the big clubs, the most active ones, the The richest are the ones who, according to Florentino Pérez, have to rule in football and give us money to others out of solidarity and that cannot be “.
