“Mine is a shit, a serious, important thing that does not have to happen again, but they do it more than anything because of the yellow ruffled journalism that comes out everywhere. It even appeared in the Spanish newspaper Marca, as if they had no bullshit to put on. It is to grab the jerk on duty and hit it with a pipe. It is like this, in a week we don’t talk about this anymore”. The one speaking is José Luis Pappalardi, the Racing de Chivilvoy basketball player who chased after a referee Andrés Álvarez to hit him. The event occurred this weekend, in the match that his team faced club Platense.
In the midst of the media commotion that the images generated, the athlete broke the silence and told his version of the story on a Radio in the Center of Chivilcoy. “At no point did I hit him or touch him or anything. When I wanted to go over to talk to him, he would make gestures with his face and he would go behind me. When I went to speak to the other judge, he told me that he had already charged and that nothing more could be done. When I get to the bank and see that he charges me unsportsmanlike and expels me, there the chain came loose”, He explained.
According to his account, he denied that he had tried to hit the judge of the match and clarified that outside the court he did not hurt anyone. In addition, he thanked the public of the La Plata team who collaborated to reassure him. “An event that should not have happened. At least for my part to apologize to all the people of Chivilcoy because we represent a club in the city and these things do not have to happen, but hey. I take charge, I go out to show my face, I already apologized to who had to apologize and take charge of what happened”, He declared.
During his discharge, Pappalardi made a criticism of the referees of the Federal Tournament and how they treat him in the matches. “There are games that in home games they charged me for three seconds, then there comes a time when you think they are looking for you, they want to make you warm up, I don’t know what they are looking for with those things. I’m not going to say that I’m a barefoot Carmelite, I have my character, but if you don’t break my balls, I won’t screw you, ”she said. And he added: “There comes a time when, like everyone else, they stick their finger in the wound and sooner or later you will jump. I had a bad day, jumped in and take over. It shouldn’t have happened, it doesn’t have to happen again, I’m a jerk, I take care of this whole situation ”.
In turn, he considered that “the unsportsmanlike fouls they charge me are a joke” and remarked: “When I’m going to talk to the judge and ask him why he charged me for that, at the most that he charged me foul, if he already knew that I had an unsportsmanlike one. He wanted me out of the game. Because if he took a common foul, I lower the rebound and I do not see the rival below me, you can see it in the video clearly. The idiot that the league is always the player, but the referees continue to direct, go to the other game, charge and take the stick. They forget that we make a terrible effort in the week, that we travel far, that we work, that the club makes a barbarous effort, and they suck an egg. They go, they arrive, they direct, they charge what is sung to them and they leave. There comes a time when you are already grown up, you are tired and you break your balls ”.
He also insisted on how they treat him in games compared to his rivals: “Five guys hang me, they shit me and they don’t charge me a foul. I use a little force and they charge me ”. “There comes a time that breaks your balls. I made the decision, I bench the one that has to come, I don’t play basketball anymore, I do my own thing and that’s it. If it is what they want, I give them the pleasure”He declared.
Finally, he referred to the viralization of the images and criticized the media treatment of the issue. “This whole social media topic went viral. I saw it on the news, Telefé, in Chronicle, I think he’s half asshole. Apart from very bad milk because worse things happen. Mine is a shit, a serious, important thing that does not have to happen again, but they do it more than anything for the yellow ruffled journalism that comes out everywhere”, He concluded.
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