Joan Jordán, lying on the pitch at Villamarín after being hit by a stick. /
Violence
“Fall to the ground,” the Sevilla coach allegedly asked the player attacked at Villamarín, according to the investigation of the Verdiblanco club sanctioned with the closure of its stadium
Two weeks after the attack suffered at the Benito Villamarín by Joan Jordán, who was hit in the head by a stick thrown from the stands and forced the suspension of the Seville derby in the Cup, Betis has presented an expert report in which it assures that Julen Lopetegui urged the Catalan midfielder to throw himself on the ground. Betis has resorted to a specialist in criminology, an expert in non-verbal communication and a verbal and forensic psychologist to prepare the report included in its appeal to try to reduce the closure of Villamarín for two games imposed by the Competition judge of the Spanish Football Federation (FEF).
“Fall to the ground,” the Sevilla coach told Jordán, according to the Verdiblanco club. “I don’t see it,” Jordan then replied to Lopetegui, is reflected in the 23-page document that will try to reinforce Betis’s allegations so that the sanction for the closure of Villamarín is suspended or reduced, after the request to suspend it in a precautionary way . The controversial expert report, revealed in the early hours of Thursday by ‘El Chiringuito’, has further aggravated the already tense relationship between Betis and Sevilla by involving Lopetegui in the violent incident that occurred on January 15 at the Verdiblanco stadium.
Saying barbarities like the ones you hear are not reality. I wish it could be heard, but it’s not what they say (Lopetegui and Jordán). To defend yourself, you don’t have to attack anyone. Since the match was played (in the round of 16 of the Cup) they keep repeating it, but I repeat that the victim is Jordán. Let no one forget,” the president of Sevilla, Pepe Castro, claimed this Thursday, for whom the “assumptions” of Betis “damage the image of the victim and of a coach who, in his career, has proven to be a person of integrity ».
“I don’t understand what is happening. In everything that has happened there has only been one contemptible, clear and proven fact, ”insisted the top leader of Sevilla in an interview on the official radio of the Seville club. «The derby is over and everything that is heating up the atmosphere seems to me, not bad, but very bad. In derbies, anything that lowers the tension is good. If we do the opposite, we will all be a little responsible later, “warned Pepe Castro, a month after the league duel between Sevilla and Betis at the Sánchez Pizjuán.
The same day the match was suspended, the Betis player Víctor Camarasa already used his official Twitter account to accuse Julen Lopetegui. “I hope that Joan Jordán is fine, although we have all heard (including the fourth referee) how his coach encouraged him to ‘become dizzy and throw himself on the ground,'” Camarasa wrote, to later agree with him his partner Juan Miranda. “We have all heard how his coach encouraged him to throw himself and get dizzy, they knew what they were doing,” said the Betis left-back.
Betis insists that the justice committees investigate the ‘Jordán case’ and in its report the Verdiblanco club highlights the change in behavior of the Sevilla footballer after he was allegedly pressured by Lopetegui. «Everything changes at that moment and since then, from the interest in organizing the match, attention has been drawn to the state of the attacked player. Then you see how Jordán begins to make signs of looking dizzy and that’s when he sits on the ground, “underlines the Betis report.
