The tense confrontation experienced at Mestalla between the Valencia and Sevilla (1-1) I left a photo between Matías Almeyda and the assistant referee Guadalupe Porras it leaves no one indifferent. The Sevilla coach strongly disagreed … with the yellow card that Peque saw, a warning that also results in a suspension for the Catalan playmaker. He blamed Guadalupe Porras and later the Argentine argued with the main referee, Guillermo Cuadra Fernándezin the locker room tunnel.
“I speak with respect, I like to be respected. I just asked the assistant why Peque was reprimanded. and he told me that they were disrespecting him,” explained Almeyda after the match. The exchange of looks and gestures between the protagonists at this moment of the match was more than striking.
What Almeyda always wanted to clarify is that there was no gender problembut he could have escaped the situation. He only disputed that Peque was reprimanded for the handball he committed. “I have three daughters, a wife and a mother, I don’t disrespect women. I like that they respond well to me,” Almeyda said before Mónica Marchante, journalist for Movistar LaLiga, asked him if this “lack of respect” was due to gender issues. “No, there was nothing gender. I don’t look, we are equal. If we are in football we are all equal, in life we are all equal,” he said.
Later, in the press room, Matías Almeyda was asked about Cuadra Fernández’s performance: “I prefer not to talk about this man… I asked him about the yellow card, but he couldn’t answer me. It stays there and that’s why I don’t speak, let them speak one day,” Almeyda concluded with a serious and displeased expression.
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