The president of Paris Saint-Germain, Nasser Al Khelaifi, unhappy with the elimination of his team on Wednesday against Real Madrid in the round of 16 of the Champions League, would have shown aggressive behavior with the match referees, according to the Spanish press.
After the 3-1 defeat against Real Madrid, which meant the elimination of PSG and the move to the quarterfinals of the Champions League for the merengue team, Al Khelaifi and his sports director, Leonardo, came down from their box to the referees’ locker room, sources from the merengue club confirmed without giving further details.
The president of PSG and its sporting director would be unhappy with the refereeing of Real Madrid’s first goal, in which PSG complained that Benzema, who scored a hat-trick, did not call a foul on goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma.
A version answered by the Parisian club: according to a source consulted by AFP, Leonardo and the president wanted to speak with the referee. The tone rose when they realized that there was someone recording with a mobile phone and asked its owner to stop.
according to the radio Being Chainthe president of PSG would have threatened a Real Madrid employee, who tried to record the scene with his mobile.
The newspaper Ace He points out that after the altercation, “PSG sent a French club protocol employee to apologize to the referees and to Real Madrid.”
“It is clear that it is a feeling of great injustice due to a clear foul on Donnarumma by Benzema,” PSG coach Mauricio Pochettino said after the match.
UEFA ‘examines’ the reports
The two PSG leaders “showed aggressive behavior and tried to enter the referees’ locker room,” according to the minutes of the meeting, which the Spanish newspapers reflected on Wednesday.
“When the referee asked them to leave, they blocked the door and the president deliberately hit the flag of one of the attendees, breaking it,” added the match referee, Danny Makkelie, in the minutes, according to the Spanish press.
According Brand and Acethe president and the technical director of PSG in their search for the referees’ locker room, got into that of the Real Madrid delegate, Megía Dávila.
“The official reports (including that of the referee) have been sent to UEFA and are being examined,” said a spokesman for the European body, asked about the eventual opening of a disciplinary investigation.
Strong man of world football with many facets, Nasser Al Khelaifi is not only the president of PSG: he also directs the group beIN Media, one of the main players in the television rights market, chairs the powerful European Club Association (ECA), and has a seat on UEFA’s executive committee.
Opposing a private and semi-closed European competition project in the spring of 2021, the Qatari had come out of the Super League crisis reinforced. “With you, we are going to save football,” UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin told him. (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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