Scandal in Spain with Christian Bragarnik’s Elche: the Argentine businessman was reported for having insulted and threatened a referee

The start of the Spanish day was plagued by controversy. True Betiswho were two goals down, turned the score against Elchewhich ended with the sending off of three players. Manuel Pellegrini’s team stayed with the 3-2 victory as guests and Christian Bragarnik he was denounced by the match referee in the registry. What happened?

The Spaniard Fidel (7′ PT, from a penalty) and the Argentinian forward Lucas Boyé (9 PT) gave the locals the lead, while the Spaniard Borja Iglesias (20′ ET), Juan Miranda (23′ ET) and the Brazilian William José (45+5′ ST, penalty) scored for the visit. In turn, Borja Iglesias squandered a penalty for Betis 43 minutes into the second half, before Spanish goalkeeper Edgar Badía’s brilliant coverage.

Elche’s anger isn’t just the match they’ve brought back, but how it went: The game ended with nine players due to the red cards of Argentinian Lisandro Magallán (11′ ST), Spaniard Pape Cheikh (12′ ST) who was on the bench and Chilean Enzo Roco (45+3′ ST).

The red card to the former Ginnastica and Boca came at the request of the VAR, when he reviewed the action in which the Argentine defender touched the ball with his hand, but without any kind of intention. The sentence generated protests from the local team and its fans. “Anyone who has played football knows that this move can never be a red card,” said Elche coach Pablo Machín after the match.

With this result, Betis have reached 40 points and are awaiting their goal of qualifying for the next European Champions League. A completely different scenario is that of Elche, with only nine units, which has suffered a major setback in its fight to stay in the top tier of Spanish football.

insults and threats

The report of the Elche-Betis match, drawn up by the referee Iglesias Villanueva, reflects insults and threats at the end of the meeting by various leaders of Elcheincluding club owner, Argentinian Christian Bragarnik, and members of the coaching staff, who are exposed to sanctions by the Competition Commission and the Anti-Violence Commission.

Elche, bottom of La Liga, lost a match on Friday which they went on to win 2-0 after suffering three red cards and being penalized with three penalties against, which sparked indignation from players, coaches and managers .

As testified in the minutes by Iglesias Villanueva, after the game Christian Bragarnik went to the referee’s dressing room and said that “they won’t leave here”, alluding to the stadium. Elche’s general manager, Pedro Schinocca, also addressed the referee with the phrase “I’m recording you son of a bitch”, holding the phone in front of his face.

The director of the sports area, Sergio Mantecón, was also identified by the police in the tunnel of the changing rooms by addressing one of the assistant referees with the following terms: “They’re scoundrels, sons of bitchesHe repeated his message, as explained on the record by Iglesias Villanueva, repeatedly, whereby he had to be detained by several members of the National Police Corps.

Before the incidents in the finale, during the match the player Pape Cheikh, recently signed by the club and who has not yet been able to make his debut, was sent off with a straight red card for addressing the fourth official in the following terms: “What sons of bitches are you ” . Even after the game there were tense moments between both teams’ players and their coaching staffalready in the dressing room tunnel, when Elche felt that Betic’s celebrations were out of place taking into account the circumstances and that they become a provocation.