🤬 Row over USA match cancellation, LaLiga chief hits out at Real star | OneFootball

The canceled Barça match in the USA is still causing controversy in LaLiga. Javier Tebas, the head of the Spanish league, has now also attacked Real Madrid and goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois for his comments regarding the cancellation.

The Real goalkeeper had expressed his frustration at the press conference before the Champions League match against Juventus about the rescheduling of the game and the lack of coverage of the protests. In recent weeks, LaLiga players have protested by standing still for 15 seconds after kickoff.

Instead of showing the players during this time, images of the stadium stands were broadcast. Courtois made it clear that he found it "manipulative to hide that and to change the reason for our protest."

It didn’t take long for the LaLiga boss to respond, issuing a statement to the press, which you can also see here in the video.

"There are a lot of things coming together here. The Real Madrid players can only ever shout 'unfair competition,' 'unfair competition,' 'unfair competition.' I listened to Courtois, and it sounds exactly like Jose Angel Sanchez (Real board member, editor's note) talking. They both say exactly the same thing. But well, what else are the players supposed to say, if they even dare to say anything at all?" Tebas raged, specifically targeting Courtois.

He also commented on the protests that were not shown: "The editorial standpoint is that everything we show must be related to the match. If there are incidents or spontaneous actions, we never show them. Not even in the highlights. And that's the way we've kept it."

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.

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