Getafe President Angel Torres raised eyebrows this week, when he made feedback in regards to the remedy acquired in Girona, claiming he was insulted for being Spanish. Getafe got here out victorious at Montilivi final Friday beating Girona 2-1.
The incidents had been aggravated when the Press Officer at Getafe threw a water bottle at followers in the course of the recreation, one thing that Torres expressed sympathy for.
“They spent the entire recreation insulting him. The boy, making a mistake, as a result of it was a mistake and he’s sorry, threw an empty water bottle and it didn’t hit them as a result of he was thirty meters away. However they informed the police they usually fined him €3k. That’s unfair,” he defined to Relevo.
He continued on to say that he was insulted on account of anti-Spanish sentiment within the stands.
“Me, actually I’ve a number of endurance. Within the packing containers I’m an bar of ice, I don’t transfer, I don’t mess with anybody, however I can inform anecdotes, the one from the final recreation. In Girona we had all the issues with everybody. There was an individual who I went to shake fingers with to want him luck and he informed me that he didn’t greet Spaniards. Then different issues occurred, however what this man did to me is extra severe.”
In line with the identical outlet, this raised eyebrows throughout La Liga, with Girona have stood out for his or her heat remedy of different administrators and presidents. Their sources in Girona say that this was not the case, and that whereas there was one one who didn’t shake fingers with Torres, they weren’t a part of the membership, and at no level did any verbal alternate happen.
A narrative that’s corroborated nearly phrase for phrase by Catalunya Radio. They go on so as to add that the particular person in query had grown uninterested in the provocations from the Getafe gamers and workers, who on numerous events pointed to the Spanish flag. Their data is that whereas they did ignore a handshake from Torres, the dialog associated by Torres is ‘an invention’.
Undoubtedly Girona is among the locations in Catalonia the place pro-independence assist has been strongest current years. By the identical token, components of centralist media in Spain have gone out of their strategy to stoke anti-Catalan sentiment, portray an image of the area that has little to do with actuality.