A brother's wedding or a soccer game? The story of a mess in Leganés

At 4.30 pm, the Leganés footballers jumped onto the grass of the Butarque Sports Facility.

There they were all summoned by coach

for the first training session of the week.

And among the footballers there was also Borja Garcés.

Borja is a striker on loan from Atlético de Madrid, who has made headlines this weekend for flying to Melilla without permission to be present at his brother's wedding.

To see him go up to the altar.

No more.

He asked for authorization, but the club did not grant it.

"It seems to me an aberration, a barbarity," the 'cucumber' coach lamented, after falling at home against Tenerife (1-2) and being submerged in the relegation places.

But what is more important: your brother's wedding or a football game?

Borja had it clear, despite the fact that now he will have to assume the punishment for what is an act of indiscipline.

Garcés's was an express trip.

At 2:30 p.m., after seeing his brother marry, he got on the plane in Melilla.

Before boarding he already knew that he had not been summoned.

Had skipped

the meeting and the previous training on Saturday morning, when the call is decided. However, he landed in Madrid at 4:00 p.m., with five hours ahead for a duel in which Leganés had everything except forwards (

and

were injured). After the Blue and White defeat, he was also met with the indignation of the coach, Asier Garitano, who had not given him permission to attend the ceremony: "Two days ago he asked me for permission to attend a wedding today. I do not give it to him. I think he asks the club again and he is told that it cannot be. And, without permission, he does not come this morning and go to a wedding in Melilla. " It wasn't just any link, it was his brother's.

In the Butarque press room, Garitano assured that Borja Garcés, renewed by Atlético until 2024 and loaned to the Madrid team until June, would not play again while he was in charge.

"He acted like a great professional and a great brother. He has not come to any party, that is very clear," defended the close friends of the striker in statements collected by the EFE agency.

The fact is that Garcés left without permission.

Neither the coach nor the club.

Although, apparently, the sports director tried to mediate the matter.

There has been no communication from either party.

The other side: Jasikevicius and Pochettino

Sometimes there are personal situations that are above work. Sarunas

, today Barcelona basketball coach, understood it perfectly when he was managing Zalgiris Kaunas. His team was playing the pass to the final of the league and the Brazilian

, one of the pillars of the team, missed a game before the imminent birth of his son. "Do you think that basketball is the most important thing? When you become a father you will understand what is the most important thing in life," said the Lithuanian coach at the time.

Much closer, specifically last week, is

decision

.

The PSG coach allowed

leave urgently to Milan to solve his marital problems, despite the fact that the Parisian team had to play a match in the group stage of the Champions League against Leipzig.

At the moment, the future of Borja Garcés is unknown, who has not yet scored in any of the nine games he has played with the Leganés shirt.

It remains to be seen what the club's decision will be for that act of indiscipline, driven by a matter as personal as a brother's wedding.

Because what is more important: your brother's wedding or a football game?

Borja had it clear.

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