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Following his side`s loss to arch-rivals Barcelona, which helped the Blaugrana defend their La Liga title, Real Madrid president Florentino Perez went on an angry rant against referees in the competition, accusing them of stealing `18 points` during this season.
Battling infighting within their own playing group and some injuries, Real Madrid lost 2-0 away to Barcelona as the Camp Nou celebrated winning the league against their rivals. Barca won the league for the 29th time after going 14 points clear at the top of the table.
After the defeat, an angry Perez went off in a presser on Tuesday, saying that since his tenure with the club as president, he has won only seven La Liga titles, which should have been 14, as quoted by Goal.com.
“I have won only seven LaLiga titles with Real Madrid!? I should have 14. They stole the other seven from me. The referees have stolen 18 points from us in LaLiga,” Perez said.
Perez went on to say that Madrid`s 14-point disadvantage with three games remaining was not the result of their own on-field efforts, but rather of the severe calls made by the referees, especially Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, the former vice-president of the Spanish Referees` Committee.
“The same referees from the Negreira era are still in action. They`re still officiating. That makes no sense. Barca paid for Negreira`s services for two decades, and these referees are still active in the third decade,” Perez continued.
Real Madrid will finish a second consecutive season without a trophy
Real Madrid will end the season without a major trophy for the second successive season. The Los Blancos lost in the quarterfinal of the Champions League against Bayern Munich. Perez, who first took the Real Madrid presidency in 2000, said that he has asked the club`s electoral board to start the process for elections for the leadership positions in the club.
“I have asked the electoral board to begin the process to start the elections for the board of directors, for which we, the Board of Directors, will be running. I am calling them so everyone knows they are open to everyone, and that they can run as I did. I do not give lectures, I do not go where I have to be in the spotlight,” he signed off.
(With ANI Input)
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