Joan Gaspart, president of FC Barcelona between 2000 and 2003, went this Friday to the City of Justice to declare in the Court of Instruction number 1 of Barcelona within the framework of ‘Negreira case‘. The former Barça president, who never tires of repeating in many public appearances, that the Catalan club did not influence the sporting results and that it only paid between 2001 and 2018 José María Enríquez Negreira, then vice president of Technical Committee of Referees, by arbitration advisory reports, “just as is done with scouts.” Then, he insisted emphatically: “It is a lie, I have repeated it 33 times, the Barça “He has never committed any illegality, and buying a referee to favor you is illegal.”
Gaspartwho said he had seen “once or twice” José María Enríquez Negreira and he doesn’t know his son, Javier Enriquezmaintained his speech on the matter and attacked the Real Madrid y Florentino Perez. “He Madrid y Florentino Perez They are unintentionally doing a lot of damage to football, not just to Barça, but to football. There are people who die of heart attacks in football because they suffer. “If these people knew that football was corrupt, would they have heart attacks?” he said in the first instance.
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Upon leaving the court, Gaspart He also revealed part of his judicial statement: “Later I set my example. I, president of the BarçaI left Barça because 100,000 handkerchiefs tell me to leave because I was also doing very badly, I’m an idiot, if I know that you can win a game by winning a referee… You have to be very stupid and very stupid. I come now from China and they ask me what’s going on. They are accusing Barça and they say that football is corrupted. And it’s not. “They destroy football if they think that football is corrupted.”
