The audios from the night of shame at the Metropolitano: “I can’t play like this”, “we’re going into the locker room, Carlo”, “this is going to be worse”

They were three frenetic minutes on the field and in Las Rozas. Three minutes in which the dialogue between the field referee, Mateo Busquets Ferrer, and that of VAR, Javier Iglesias Villanuevawas constant. Three minutes in which several lighters, a bag of food and a bottle of water were thrown.

“I can’t play like that,” he tells him. Courtois to the referee in the middle of the incidents. “Can’t you play? We’ll go inside,” he then confirms. Busquets Ferrer to the Belgian goalkeeper. As soon as the referee announces his decision, it will be communicated to the coaches.

– Diego (Simeone)we are going to stop the game for shots.

– It seems very good to me, very good.

– We spend 10 minutes, Carlo (Ancelotti). Let’s see if it can be solved.

After communicating this to the coaches, the referee begins to indicate to the players to take the path to the locker room. There are some, like the Madridista Luka Modric who ask for explanations:

– Let’s go in 10 minutes, Luka.

– ¿10?

– It is Modric protocol, protocol for launching objects. Luka, we have to go in.

– This is going to be worse.

The referee is also forced to give explanations to Julián Álvarez, Militao and Carvajalwho tells him that he collected five lighters from the field. The referee was also heard to have picked up three lighters at once.

This is the main extract of the audios between the VAR and the referee of the derby that the Royal Spanish Football Federation has made public about the incidents in the Metropolitano. The total piece lasts seven minutes, but half of them are made up of the dialogues during the moment in which the provisional suspension of the match was decreed.

The referee is also heard asking the delegate to announce over the public address system that the throwing of objects should stop and then warn that, if it continued, he would proceed to suspend the match as finally happened.

Despite the image-level embarrassment that these incidents caused for Spanish football, the referee’s performance is exemplary as can be seen in the audios made public by the RFEF.

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