Ángel Correa, sanctioned five games

The Argentine striker of Atlético de Madrid, Ángel Correa, has been sanctioned on Wednesday by the Competition Committee of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) with five games for his red against Getafe CF and his subsequent insults to the referee Guillermo Cuadra Fernández.

After a notice from the Vor room, Cuadra Fernández expelled the rojiblanco footballer for an entrance to Djené Dakonam and, according to the arbitration act, issued insults to the referee while leaving the field (‘Son of the thousand whores, Cagón, the shell of your mother’).

For these reasons, competition proceeded to sanction the Argentine with a match for his direct red, and four more “for insults, verbal offenses and injurious attitudes” to a member of the arbitration team, the least punishment of the possible, which ranged between this number and a maximum of 12.

In this way, Correa will not be able to play the weekend that comes against FC Barcelona, ​​the RCD Espanyol, the duel back of the semifinals of the Copa del Rey Mapfre against the Blaugrana team (for being a sanction of four or more games), Seville FC and Real Valladolid. Unless Atlético de Madrid eliminated Real Madrid in the round of 16 of the Champions League, the South American would be without playing more than a month.

The mattress club presented allegations to competition to leave the red card without effect, warning that the player “was not worthy of the expulsion” for the existence of material error “manifest” when considering that the entrance was not “with use of excessive force, while he pointed out that his offensive words should be treated” as contempt “and that he had to also apply” the attenuating circumstance of spontaneous regret. ” He apologized after the meeting.

In this sense, the agency dismissed the first resource clarifying that Atlético did not present “any evidence” to demonstrate that there were the aforementioned manifest error, and also ignored the second because the expressions collected “clearly constitute an infraction of article 99 of the RFEF Disciplinary Code.”

“In this order of things, they cannot be received, to the pretended exculpatory or attenuating effects of responsibility, the reasons that are made when trying to justify the reproachable behavior of the player, even though the result or becoming of a meeting can cause, as they say in the brief of allegations, that, in addition to the convenience of such emotions, they must never be avoided or controlled, they can never justify the chain of serious expressions. Referee as reflected in the arbitration act, or any other lack of respect for the person and towards the authority that represents the arbitration team, “said competition.

Likewise, despite the fact that Angel Correa describes as “laudable”, “in no way can consideration and the pretended effects of spontaneous repentance as an attenuating circumstance” strictly, remarry that he had already decided “motu proprio to impose the minimum sanction of suspension.”