Serious Madrid president Florentino Perez has been accused of pressuring a previous LaLiga referee more than his cure of Barcelona in 2010 – with claims he ‘took him into a individual room’.
Eduardo Iturralde Gonzalez – who officiated in the Spanish top rated flight between 1995 and 2012 – created the claim about Perez’s alleged behaviour in the 2010-11 period soon after a 6-1 earn from Deportivo La Coruna.
Perez is mentioned to have thought Gonzalez gave preferential remedy to Barcelona above Authentic Madrid that year, with the formal proclaiming he had told him to give the very same decisions for his side.
It will come just days just after their rivals Barcelona had been billed with corruption in excess of promises the club compensated £7.3million to the former vice-president of the Spanish referees committee.
‘You can see how they consider to put tension on specific people,’ Gonzalez told Spanish radio station Cadena SER, via Mundo Deportivo. ‘In a 6-1 match in opposition to Deportivo: the video game finishes, we depart the subject and the assistants appear out with me.
‘There is a human being who puts me in a space and states: “I only inquire you to whistle at me the similar as FC Barcelona”
Real Madrid main Florentino Perez has been accused of pressuring a referee in 2010
Eduardo Iturralde Gonzalez (R) claimed Perez took him ‘into a individual room’ and requested him to give the exact same treatment method he gave to rivals Barcelona
‘I talk to him if he’s joking, and explain to him that our conversation is more than. He required to put me in a room on your own, but I reported no. I informed him not to do that.’
Iturralde said he claimed the incident to the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) but that no action was taken.
‘Half an hour afterwards, the (CTA) understood about it. I brought it to their awareness, since it appeared major to me but there was nothing else to it,’ he extra.
‘It has not occurred to me in any other time, no president has put me in a different place. I care about the info. The one who place me in a independent area was Florentino Perez. I don’t have to hide.
‘There is a report from the CTA, because I brought it to their focus. So they can see what force is.’
Sportsmail has approached Real Madrid for remark.
The 2010-11 LaLiga period finished with Barcelona winning the title on 96 details, while True Madrid completed as runners up on 92 points.
Barcelona have been charged with corruption over payments to a previous referees’ formal
Previous Barcelona presidents Josep Maria Bartomeu (L) and Sandro Rosell (R) are facing prices of corruption
Spanish football has been rocked by the corruption scandal involving Barcelona after the country’s community prosecutor accused the club of preserving a marriage with Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira.
He is alleged to have carried out actions ‘in exchange for money’ that would ‘lead to Barcelona becoming favoured in the determination generating of the referees’.
The prosecution claims €7.3million (£6.46m) was paid by the club to DASNIL and NILSAT, two providers owned by Negreira.
Final month, LaLiga main Javier Tebas identified as on Barcelona president Joan Laporta to resign if he could not demonstrate the cause for the payments.
The club could face substantial fiscal penalties, and Negreira, former Barcelona presidents Sandro Rosell and Josep Bartomeu, and previous administrators Oscar Grau and Albert Soler could confront up to 4 decades in jail.
Courts will now choose no matter if there is ample proof to confirm that Negreira utilised dollars paid out to him by Barcelona to affect matches in the club’s favour.
Previous thirty day period Javier Tebas urged Joan Laporta (pictured) to resign if he cannot demonstrate payments
This 7 days Madrid supremo Perez known as an emergency assembly immediately after Barcelona were being charged because of to the seriousness of the allegations.
A club assertion study: ‘Given the seriousness of the accusations produced by the Prosecutor’s Business of Barcelona versus FC Barcelona and two of its presidents for allegations of corruption and their relations with who was the vice president of the Specialized Committee of Referees, Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, the president has urgently convened the Board of Directors tomorrow, Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 12:00, in buy to determine the steps that Serious Madrid deems proper in relation to this subject.’
The controversy very first strike Barcelona previous thirty day period when an investigation into a agency owned by Negreira disclosed a £1.2m payment from the club, through a two-calendar year period of time right up until 2018 for ‘technical tips on referees’.
Spanish newspaper El Mundo subsequently reported that payments from Barcelona to Negreira’s firm date again to 2001, a period of time that contains Laporta’s first spell as club president. He will now have to give evidence to investigators.
Barcelona’s latest president Laporta was asked about the scandal before this week and reported: ‘Barca has under no circumstances purchased referees and Barca has by no means had any intention of obtaining referees. Unquestionably never ever. The forcefulness of the info contradicts those people who attempt to alter the story.’