MADRID, 31 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Former footballer Juan Torres Ruiz, better known as Juan Cala, has announced that he will take “legal action” against those responsible for the chants heard in Mestalla during the LaLiga EA Sports match between Valencia and Cádiz on October 23, in the who accused him of being “racist.”
“The Dogma-Leco law firm informs that all legal actions available in our legal system have been taken, in order to pursue the restoration of honor and the damages caused to Don Juan Torres Ruiz, known in football as Juan ‘Cala’. This This measure occurs due to the chants uttered by the Valencia CF fans in the match that was played at the Mestalla stadium on the 23rd of this month, where without justified cause the status of racist was attributed to our client. “, he said in a statement published on his profile on the social network X.
Cala, who announced his retirement from football on October 5, relies on what was already reported by LaLiga, which revealed that during said match “chants against the former Cádiz player uttered by sectors of the stands” were heard.
“In the written complaint that the employers present each week to the Competition Committee and the Anti-Violence Commission, LaLiga states that in the 23rd minute of the match, “a group of local fans, located in the south goal, Mario Kempes stands, chanted in a choral and coordinated manner, for approximately 10 seconds, the chant, ‘he is a racist, Juan Cala is a racist, he is a racist,'” he added.
The former Lebrija defender was already the protagonist of another incident against the ‘Che’ team a couple of years ago. On Sunday, April 4, 2021, Valencia footballer Mouctar Diakhaby reported that Cala, then a Cádiz player, had called him a “fucking black man” during a duel at the Ramón de Carranza, now Nuevo Mirandilla, which caused the crash to break. had to stop for half an hour and resume without the presence of ‘che’, who remained “sunken” in the locker room. However, LaLiga found no evidence of any racist insult from Cala to Diakhaby.
2023-10-30 23:26:05
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