“What is the regime team?”

John Laporta has accused the Real Madrid of carrying out an exercise of “unprecedented cynicism” for appearing in the case of the Negreira case, related to the alleged purchase of arbitrators by the FC Barcelona after revealing that the Barcelona entity was paying a total of 7.3 million euros to the former vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA), Jose Maria Enriquez Negreirafor 18 years.

“That this club (Real Madrid) appears and alleges that it feels harmed sportingly in the best period of FC Barcelona, ​​it seems to me an unprecedented exercise in cynicism“, Laporta said this Monday, adding that the white club has historically “been favored” by arbitration proceedings. “For seven decades, most of the leaders of the Technical Committee of Referees have been uninterrupted ex-partners, ex-directors or ex-players of Real Madrid , a club that has been considered the regime team“, affirmed the culé leader in his very long appearance before the media, lasting two hours.

Madrid wanted to respond to Laporta and they have done so forcefully, with a video that they have posted on their social networks in which it begins and ends with the same question: “Which was the regime’s team?” From there, Real Madrid tries to show that Francisco Franco was the one who helped Barça during his long dictatorship.

Supported by numerous images from the NO-DO historical archive, the merengue entity assures that “the Camp Nou was inaugurated by Franco’s general minister, José Solís Ruiz“. He also recalls that “Barcelona awarded the gold and diamond insignia to Franco”, “named Franco an honorary partner in 1965” and “decorated three times” to the general.

The Real Madrid video states that “Barcelona was saved three times from bankruptcy with three reclassifications by FrancoIn addition, at a sporting level, the white club recalls that Barcelona “won eight league titles and nine Generalissimo Cups with Franco”, and that with him, “it took Real Madrid fifteen years to win a League”.

Finally, the Madrid entity points out that “Real Madrid is dismantled in the Civil War, players assassinated, detained and exiledas recounted in the documentary Santiago Bernabeu“.

At that moment, and as the final part of the devastating video, the voice-over of the legendary white president is heard with the following phrase from the Bernabéu, which would go down in history. “When I hear that Madrid has been the team of the regime, it makes me want to shit on the father of whoever says so“said the man who was president of Real Madrid for 35 years (1943-1978).