Lucho González banned, official reveals spat with Mourinho | OneFootball

Lucho González received a one-match suspension and an additional eight-day penalty for his involvement in the altercation that occurred after Benfica’s second goal against FC Porto, as indicated in the disciplinary report from the FPF Disciplinary Council.

According to referee João Pinheiro’s report, the FC Porto assistant coach, who was sent off, “deliberately left the technical area to act in a provocative or inflammatory manner, reacting to the provocation from Club A’s coach [José Mourinho], moving towards him and confronting him.”

The disciplinary report also includes another excerpt from the altercation between Mourinho and Lucho. According to the FPF delegate’s report, “in the 92nd minute, after the referee expelled the sports agents, the home team’s head coach José Mourinho, and the visiting delegate, Luis González, at the entrance to the tunnel leading to the locker rooms, coach José Mourinho approached delegate Luis Gonzalez, making a gesture with his index finger tapping his thumb and repeatedly saying ‘you’re tiny’, to which the delegate responded ‘you’re a traitor’. This situation caused an altercation among several individuals who tried to separate the aforementioned sports agents.”

The FPF Disciplinary Council considers, in the report, that “the expression ‘you’re a traitor’, addressed directly to the person in question, constitutes a derogatory judgment about his character, directly affecting his honor and reputation in both a sporting and personal context,” but that there is a mitigating factor since it was in reaction to a “provocation.” “It is an offensive and damaging accusation to one’s honor, constituting conduct that is disciplinarily reprehensible and relevant for the purposes of Article 136, paragraph 1 of the RDLPFP. Nevertheless, and as stated in the LPFP delegate’s report, the expression was uttered as an immediate reaction to the initial provocation (‘you’re tiny’), a fact that lessens the severity of the conduct. Thus, in addition to the mitigating factor of good behavior, the application of the provocation/response mitigating factor is justified in determining the specific measure of the sanction.”

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