São Paulo claim backstage win, satisfied after VAR audio release | OneFootball

As far as the São Paulo board is concerned, any controversy regarding the refereeing by Ramon Abatti Abel from Santa Catarina in the defeat to Palmeiras in last weekend’s derby at Morumbi, for the Brazilian Championship, is now completely over.

AVANTE MEU TRICOLOR has learned from sources within the São Paulo football leadership that the board is satisfied with the fact that the CBF released the audio recordings of Abel’s conversations with the VAR, Ilbert Estevam da Silva from São Paulo.

With what it considered a backstage victory and also the public revelation that the refereeing errors pointed out did, in fact, occur, no more drastic actions—such as requesting the annulment of the match—will be taken.

On the contrary, Tricolor only formally submitted on Friday (10) a request to the football governing body that Abel and Silva no longer officiate the club’s matches. Both are suspended for an indefinite period.

Last week, the Football Referees’ Union of the State of Santa Catarina published on Thursday night (9) a statement in defense of referee Ramon Abatti Abel, the central figure in the debates over the São Paulo vs. Palmeiras derby in the Brasileirão.

The referee in question has already been sidelined for retraining by the CBF and still lingers in the minds of the Tricolor fans, especially due to the crucial missed calls, the blatant penalty on Tapia, and the non-expulsion of Andreas Pereira for a studs-up challenge on São Paulo’s Marcos Antônio.

In a post on its social media, titled ‘Note of Humanization and Respect’, the SC Union published a series of images of death threats and accusations of theft made against Ramon Abatti online, followed by a text defending the professional.

There are, however, some false pieces of information. In one part of the statement, it says that there is ‘propagation of fake news by media outlets, claiming that the referee told a player that he “complains even about being born,” which is absolutely untrue’.

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