Agencies Madrid

Madrid

Updated Tuesday, February 6, 2024-10:25

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Sevilla

FC

has regretted the "obscene and totally inappropriate gesture" that a fan from the Vallecas stands made towards

Lucas Ocampos

during the Nervionenses' match against

Rayo

, and asks

LaLiga

to take the "appropriate measures" so that this does not happen. happen again.

For its part, LaLiga confirmed that it will report the obscene gesture to the Juvenile Prosecutor's Office, since the perpetrator is a minor whom the Police have already identified. The employers' association also announced that it will report to the Hate Prosecutor's Office the racist insults uttered in the same match against the Moroccan footballer

Youssef En-Nesyri

, author of the two goals in his team's victory (1-2), as he always does. that these types of acts occur before the Competition Committee of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and the Anti-Violence Commission.

"Sevilla FC deeply regrets the event that occurred this Monday in the match against Rayo Vallecano, in which our player Lucas Ocampos suffered an obscene and totally inappropriate gesture by a local fan," the Andalusian club said in a statement.

During Monday's game and after half an hour of play, with the score at 1-1, the Argentine striker was preparing to take a throw-in when a fan located in the first row of the stands inserted

a finger into his anus

. The player made the offender's gesture ugly and complained about it to referee

Hernández Maeso

, who warned the field delegate. The incident was reflected in the minutes.

"Sevilla FC hopes that the appropriate measures stipulated in the regulations will be taken so that such behavior is not repeated on a football field, and this has been conveyed to LaLiga. These gestures and behaviors should not be allowed in our competition. if we aspire to be the best league in the world," he continued.

Finally, Sevilla FC showed its "maximum support" for Lucas Ocampos. "He showed knowing how to be and enormous professionalism, despite the unacceptable attitude of the fan who rebuked him," he concluded.

The player already expressed himself in the same terms at the end of the match that ended with Sevilla's 1-2 victory and also asked that LaLiga "take seriously" the gesture of

that "fool"

, because "if it happens in the women's football we know what can happen."