Hi Koora – Former Barcelona president Juan Gaspart told the media before the Court of Justice after testifying in the Negrera case, today, Friday, saying:
“Real Madrid and Perez are not harming Barcelona, but they are harming football.”
“Barcelona never did that, neither during the period in which I was a distant president nor during the period in which I was president, and I put my hand in the fire for the sake of Mr. Laporta, Bartomeu, Sandro Rosell and for the sake of all the executives in Barcelona.”
“I said that very clearly to the judge herself, she gave me the right and told me: I said that several times, but I wanted to repeat it.”
“What Barcelona is accused of is a lie, that it committed an illegal violation. This is not true. Paying money to someone who tells the referee to pay so that Barcelona can win is a lie, and when it is a lie, it is a lie.”
“Real Madrid and its president, I think they are unintentionally causing great harm to football.”
“I am not just talking about Barcelona here, but about football.”
“Do you think that people who die of heart attacks in stadiums due to extreme suffering? Do you think that if all of these people knew that football is corrupt, they would have these attacks? Please.”
“More than that, I mentioned my situation to them. You are talking to someone who was the president of Barça and he left because a hundred thousand handkerchiefs were asking him to leave because he was doing his job poorly, and this is stupid! Because if I knew that matches could be won by paying money to the referee, then one must be very stupid, very stupid.”
“What is happening is very cruel, not only with Barcelona… They are not aware of what they are doing to football. I have just returned from China and they are asking me what is happening, because people do not go into details. They are accusing Barcelona: Yes, that is true, but they say that football is corrupt, and they are destroying it.”
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