• Precedent: Threat of collapse and division in football due to new positives

Real Zaragoza remained in a measured silence before the Fuenlabrada case until Watford told them a week ago that they were not going to extend the loan of their top scorer, Luis Suárez , depriving him of playing the playoff. It was then that the entity chaired by Christian Lapetra (Zaragoza, 1970) raised his voice when he considered that the playoff -which finally begins on Thursday- was "adulterated" and that "the principles of equality, integrity and equity have been broken ». For this reason, they have asked the CSD, after doing so without success to the League, that it be annulled and that Zaragoza, as third place, be promoted or that the other three involved -Almería, Girona and Elche- also do so. the next League will be 23 teams, an idea that "is not unreasonable" for Lapetra.

There have been in his club, and in several others, players with positive for Covid-19 who have trained with their teammates without infecting anyone. In Fuenlabrada, on the other hand, there were 28 positives. What does that tell you? That the appropriate measures were not taken by the club and its medical services. In the sequence of events that we have all learned, it seems that it is a positive that is hidden and that decisions were made that have become irreversible and very burdensome. And that the footballers' health has been at stake. Was the decision to play the rest of the last day correct? Absolutely not, the facts prove it. That same afternoon, we all had the same opinion, that the whole day be delayed. Then we learned that the positive is known two days before, that the team is allowed to travel with positives and that it is confined to infected and not in the same hotel, leading to a common life, which triggers massive infections. It was a very serious mistake, it should have been postponed all day 24 hours, because Fuenlabrada had enough players. And Fuenlabrada is a repeat offender, we suffered in the first round a postponement due to contagious gastroenteritis, something that sounded very strange to all of us, because they were the right number of people affected not to play. There are clubs that are asking for resignation or even disqualification scored by Javier Tebas. Do you agree? There will be time to study if it is appropriate to ask you to be responsible for what happened. The decisions you have to make should be aimed at favoring everyone, not some to the detriment of others. He has declared himself totally responsible for what happened with Fuenlabrada and, if that translates into sanctions for the club, he has to go up, that is very clear to me. Thebes must not forget that he is an employee of the League. The most qualified, yes, but he is the president of the League because the clubs want him. The League is not Thebes, but 42 clubs. Do the elderly feel harmed by this situation? I do not know if the most, but we are a lot. We have suffered the loss of one of our most important players due to an erroneous administrative decision made by the League. If Barcelona had lost Messi or Madrid to Benzema for the Champions League due to an administrative decision, there would be fire everywhere. It is very serious, it breaks all the principles of equality, integrity and fairness of the competition, which is something that everyone has filled their mouths with. The rules of the game have been modified on the fly, with wrong decisions and no consensus with anyone. We consider that it is an offense to Zaragoza, that it will not be able to compete in the same conditions as the rest, and that is why we have raised our voice: Will they accept the sporting result of the playoff, whether they are promoted or not? We are going to fight in all areas to that Zaragoza is in the First Division next year. We will fight to the end, we have to compete on the field and we are going to do it, but we are also going to watch out for the interests of the club, whether they are promoted or not, a priori they will have just a month for the players to have vacations, to do preseason and to put together a new squad. Do you have time for everything? You will have to give, the dates are what they are, if they do not change. It seems ridiculous to me that the League's response is for clubs that finished later to start two weeks later. That means playing during the week, being in inferior conditions. And entering late into a market that is already underway, with players who will not want to wait to know in which category we play because of this adulterated and delayed playoff due to negligence.

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