Where was the game screenwriter? What a brilliant mind, and at the same time twisted, had written the ladder of the Copa del Rey final? In the prelude to a Barcelona-Real Madrid, a penalty in favor of the Barça in the 96th minute. The collegiate, Ricardo de Burgos Bengoechea, had no doubt, and from the stands also seemed clearly clearly the demolition of Raúl Asencio to Raphinha. But the invisible hands that moved the threads of a meeting played to the limit had another final for that play. , cancellation of the maximum penalty and yellow card for the Brazilian end to throw yourself. Did anyone give more at night?
The previous 33 hours had put the final in a can of gasoline due to the controversy between Real Madrid, the members of the appointment (by Burgos Bengoechea in the countryside and Pablo González Fuertes in the VAR), and the entire arbitration estate. They were the last station of a tension escalation between the club and the organism directed by Luis Medina Cantalejo in which an end is not guessed yet. and drawing a heart with his hands in the direction of the stands. As he announced at the press conference this Friday that caused the great shake, the Basque held a video call with his family as part of the ritual before each match.
Before thriller He started and after a day and a half eternal, by Burgos Bengoechea appeared in the costume tunnel and greeted himself with Ceballos, Carvajal and other players of both teams. The Basque was especially dialogue almost in each play, although he did not hesitate to take Carlo Ancelotti yellow for protesting before half an hour. And over time, he showed the red to Rüdiger, who threw from the bench what seemed like a piece of sanitary material in the middle of the angry protest of the Madrid bench for a foul indicated to Mbappé in the last merengue attack. An outcome to red live after 120 minutes in which Burgos Bengoechea exceeded an poisoned final. The Red Lucas Vázquez also saw once the duel was finished. “I don’t want to talk about the referee,” said Ancelotti after the final.
The last time he had seen De Burgos Bengoechea had unleashed a fatal storm about Spanish football. The collegiate broke up crying in Friday’s press conference when he remembered how his son was told at school that his father was a thief. The final scene of an appearance that gave rise to the great crisis that demanded contacts at the highest level among the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, Rafael Louzán; the president of the Technical Referee Committee, Luis Medina Cantalejo; the president of the Superior Sports Council, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes; the president of Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez; and its executive general director, José Ángel Sánchez.
Louzán had a long telephone conversation with José Ángel Sánchez to reduce the tension and Florentino Pérez Charlos with Uribes, fearful that the situation went even more of his hands. And to the Madrid statement late on Friday afternoon, in which he assured that the statements of the referees demonstrated their “animosity and hostility”, joined the attempt of a group of colleges who tried to issue a support note to the referees of the final because they understood that they had not received a clear and firm support from Louzán. However, the president of the Federation prevented this protest from spreading through the official channels of Las Rozas. So more firewood. The complaint sent it to some media, although late at night the exchange of calls on several fronts had managed to reduce the tide and Madrid clarified in another note that there was no doubt that the team would play the final.
