More than 24 hours after Athletic striker Iñaki Williams denounced the racist cries he suffered at the Espanyol stadium, the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) issued a statement in which he wanted to look good with everyone. On the one hand, he described the facts "of extreme gravity" and "deserving of exemplary punishment and of the most complete collective social rejection", in addition to announcing a complaint before the National Anti-Violence Commission. On the other, he tried to exonerate the referee of the match Sánchez Martínez from any responsibility, who did not reflect in his record anything that happened, despite being warned by Muniain of what happened.

The body chaired by Luis Rubiales - who yesterday personally telephoned Williams and the president of Athletic, Aitor Elizegi - is shielded - in which “neither the referee, [...] nor the assistant of the referee, nor the Federative Delegate, nor even , the Delegate of the League had some direct knowledge of such racist and intolerant attitudes or chants during the meeting ». Therefore, the note argues, Sánchez Martínez did not put it in writing, despite having been warned by Muniain, as he acknowledges - not to mention the name of the footballer - the RFEF in his statement.

Yesterday, however, Mateu Lahoz reflected normally in his record of Atlético-Leganés that goalkeeper Cuéllar transferred him "who had been attacked by a ball boy." Neither one nor the other had direct knowledge of both realities, only indirectly through the mouth of a soccer player, but one (Mateu Lahoz) reflected it in his minutes and another (Sánchez Martínez) ignored it.

LaLiga also made a new statement yesterday in which it announced its willingness to identify offenders "in order to initiate criminal proceedings for a hate crime", in addition to reiterating that it will denounce the facts before the Anti-Violence Commission. In addition, it will propose to the Competition Committee of the RFEF the "partial closure of the affected harrow".

Regarding the incidents carried out on Saturday by radicals outside Mestalla and Cornellà , LaLiga will now focus on "reviewing the regulation of ticket sales, in relation to the tickets that are made available to the visiting club" . It should be remembered that a group of Atlético radicals entered Ipurua nine days ago with tickets that Eibar provided to the club rojiblanco.

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