Wednesday July 14, 2021
Bad tirades against club legends
Real boss insulted Ronaldo badly
Spanish football has a tangible scandal: Florentino Perez, President of Real Madrid, pulls off some of the greatest legends in football in two recordings that have now been released. Spicy: Some of them are still associated with the club.
Florentino Perez is a powerful man: the 74-year-old is the president of Real Madrid, possibly the most glorious football club in the world. A position with influence, with a lot of prestige. For the “royals” many of our greatest footballers, even of all time, played. Now Perez is under pressure for massively insulting some of the club’s legends. From behind. “Fool”, “idiot”, “crazy”, “swindler” – harsh words are documented about some of the biggest names in international football. During these days several recordings were leaked that document the tirades. Perez wants to take legal action against the recordings of conversations with different people, but their authenticity is undisputed.
The portal “El Confidencial” published audio files on Tuesday, on which you can hear how Perez teased the club legends Iker Casillas and Raúl in 2006. Casillas is “the one big hoax and the other is Raúl. The two big scams in Madrid are first Raul and then Casillas.” These players are “very selfish. You cannot rely on either of them. If you do, you make a mistake.” Raúl has played almost 700 competitive games for the “Los Blancos” and is currently the coach of the second team. Casillas won the Champions League three times and the Spanish championship six times with the club. He is known to the fans as “San Iker”, the “holy Iker”. For Perez, the five-time world goalkeeper is simply a “lap dog” and a “puppet”. Raúl, on the other hand, is “terrible” and a “wrong boy”.
Casillas is not the right goalkeeper for Real, “he never was,” said Perez. Casillas played for Real Madrid for 18 years and has been involved with the “Real Madrid Foundation” since the end of 2020. Former coach Vicente del Bosque, later world and European champion as the Spanish national coach, is a “fool who knows nothing about training or tactics,” said Perez in 2006. He had a “terrible view” of the players, not just of them Casillas and Raúl. “The players are very selfish, you can’t rely on them,” said Perez. “If you do, you made a mistake and they let you down, that’s ridiculous.” The remarks all date back to 2006, when Florentino Perez resigned as President of Real Madrid, blaming Raúl in particular for making that decision.
“Idiot”, “abnormal”
“El Confidencial” followed suit on Wednesday. The victims this time: start coach José Mourinho, ex-player Fabio Coentrao – and superstar Cristiano Ronaldo. The Portuguese, five-time world footballer, with 450 goals in 438 games, Real’s record scorer and five-time Champions League winner with Real, is “crazy. This guy is a fool, a sick man. You think this guy is normal, but that’s him not, “said Perez on recordings that were made in October 2012, according to” El Confidencial “. Ronaldo moved from Manchester United to Madrid in 2009, while Perez had returned to the royal throne three years after the end of his first term as Real President. Perez also described the former Real coach Mourinho as an “idiot” and “abnormal”, while midfielder Coentrao was “a bit moronic”.
Perez does not deny the authenticity of his statement, but it is “isolated quotes that were part of conversations and were taken out of the larger context.” In a club announcement, the 74-year-old gave insights into the origin of the recording: “I think it is important to clarify: The published quotations were part of conversations that Mr. José Antonio Abellan (Spanish journalist, editor’s note) secretly who has tried unsuccessfully to sell the recordings for many years. I find it surprising that, despite the elapsed time, they have been released today by ‘El Confidencial’. ” The Real ruler suspects that they have now been published because “I was a driving force in the Super League”. He has now placed the matter in the hands of his lawyers, “who will examine how to proceed”.
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