Barcelona have issued a statement and called on LaLiga, the RFEF and the CTA to take action against Real Madrid president Florentino Perez.
The Catalans have already called on Perez to retract “slanderous” statements about Barcelona and La Liga referees after the 79-year-old’s angry rant last month.
Barcelona have now issued a fresh statement and called on the authorities to “defend the honour, integrity and prestige of the institutions that they represent” from the “grave attack” from Perez.
Here’s
the statement in full:
“The FC Barcelona president, Rafael Yuste i Abel, today has addressed a formal letter to the presidents of LaLiga, Javier Tebas; the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Rafael Louzán; and of the Referee’s Technical Committee (CTA), Francisco Soto, in relation to statements made by the president of Real Madrid CF, Florentino Pérez, in various public appearances on 12 and 13 May.
“FC Barcelona considers that these comments, aside from being untrue, are a grave attack on the honour and image of the league competition in the First Division and also on the refereeing community as a whole and that they damage the reputation and credibility of professional football in Spain.
“The Club urges the joint organisers of the competition and the referees to defend the reputation of their respective organisations, as the Club has done recently with its request for conciliation, and also asks the bodies in question that, in the area of their respective powers, they adopt urgent the requisite coordinated legal measures against Mr. Pérez to defend the honour, integrity and prestige of the institutions that they represent and the competitions which they organise.”
The statement comes just hours after Real Madrid confirmed they had sent a report to UEFA about Barcelona and the Negreira Case.
