Urgent| For the first time… a football team filed a complaint with the police against a referee
Gimeneztec in the Spanish third division was one game away from promotion, but a thrilling 2:2 draw against Malaga, with a goal scored in the 129th minute, in stoppage time, ended those dreams.
Criminal complaint against a referee
After half a year, the club decided to file a complaint against the match referee in which they claimed that he "determined the outcome of the match in advance," Thus, the Spanish team became the first team in history to file a criminal complaint against a referee.
According to European reports, the division club The third chose to take the rare step of a controversial decision by referee Mayo Fernandez in a play-off match against Malaga last June 22.
The Jimeneztec team had competed for promotion to the second division, but ended the return match against Malaga with a score of 2:2, and the total score of the two matches was “4:3”, with the participation of nine Players.
The late goal angered the fans, and Fernandes claimed in the match report that he feared for his safety after the whistle. The end.
As a result, the Jimeneztec team was punished by playing four matches without an audience. According to a report by the newspaper “Mundo Deportivo”, Jimeneztiq presented various documents from the match in order to prove that the referee lied.
And one of This evidence: A recorded conversation between Fernandes and an investigator on their behalf that took place on November 25, in which the referee allegedly said the situation was outside the dressing room after the match. "Nervous.
Jimeneztec claims that the complaint contradicts his report on the match, which stated: "Once we were in the changing room… The clothes, which we got with the help of the police, had several incidents recorded at our dressing room door.
The fans started shouting at me and we feared for our safety, and security told us it was impossible Taking the fans out of the stadium or controlling them, because some of them are club leaders. Referee in the second division – and his salary increases 5 times to 100 thousand euros annually.
She also claimed that "A special investigation led them to believe that the outcome of the game was" Predetermined ".
But the third division team did not stop there, as the team used the services of former Spanish League referee, Javier Estrada Fernandez, to review the match. According to him, he identified “more than 13 major refereeing errors, including nine violations by Malaga players that warrant a yellow card.”
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