The league clash that the Seville players played against Real Madrid has been very expensive for Sevilla, its coach and, above all, Marcao. … to close the year at the Santiago Bernabéu. Added to the defeat suffered on the field, perhaps unfair given the merits of each and with Courtois as the star, were the expulsions of coach Matías Almeyda and the Portuguese defender, both for a double yellow card. Well, the FEF Disciplinary Committee made public this Friday the resolutions corresponding to matchday 17 of the regularity tournament and has sentenced Marcao to no less than six games of suspension.
The breakdown of the punishment includes one match for the double warning and subsequent expulsion, four matches for insults, verbal offenses and insulting attitudes directed at the referee, and an additional match for conduct contrary to good sporting order. According to the ruling, once the Sevilla centre-back was sent off, the player confronted the referee at a short distance in an intimidating manner, had to be separated by his teammates and, on the way to the locker room tunnel, he uttered expressions considered offensive before kicking a ball located in the fourth referee’s area.
«Marcao faced me a short distance from my face in an intimidating manner and had to be removed by his companions. When he was separated, he addressed me in the following terms: ‘Fillo da puta madre’, heading to the locker room tunnel where he kicked a ball that was in the fourth referee’s area,” reflects Pontevedra referee Alejando Muñiz Ruiz in the match report.
«Fillo de puta madre»
The Nervionense club presented allegations and videographic evidence defending that the expression used was a generic exclamation in Portuguese and not a direct insult, but the Committee concluded that there was no manifest material error in the referee’s report and maintained the presumption of veracity of the referee, which led to the accumulation of sanctions.
In addition, coach Matías Almeyda has also been punished with a one-match suspension for a double warning and subsequent expulsion during the same match. Some decisions that leave Sevilla conditioned for the next few days. In any case, everything remains pending for the appeal that the Andalusians will file before the Appeal Committee to be successful.
