The single-party matchup of the King’s Cup between the Barça and Racing de Santander Barça It brought an added morbidity. The event will repeat a fight between the historical leaders of First and Second Division with an alleged Cantabrian complaint involved that in the end has not gone beyond being a mere attempt, as MD has learned.
He Barça defeated Guadalajara (0-2) in 1/16. Racing got rid of Villarreal (2-1) with two goals from Arana. Both have faced each other 12 times in the Copa (nine wins for Barça, two for Racing and one draw). The Cantabrians only passed in the second round of the 1949-50 (4-1 in Barcelona and 5-1 in Santander). The last precedent was in the second round of 1988-89 (0-1 and 3-2 for the culés).
The match has an extra-sports conflict. Racing said that I would denounce Barça in the summer for the transfer of Pablo Torre to Mallorca but he didn’t do it. The operation closed at 4.95 million. For him Racing, The transfer for an amount less than five ‘kilos’ had been carried out in ‘bad faith’ to avoid paying the capital gain.
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Sources from the Barça club have assured this newspaper that the club has no record of any complaint regarding this player, now in the ranks of the Mallorca but without excessive protagonist.