Barça exhausts the appeal of ordinary justice for the 'phantom goal' of the Classic

The directive of the FC Barcelona will follow the leaf of route traced to demand justice after the grave referee's failures that prejudiced to the club in the last Classical. As it advances 'RAC 1', the club will resort to the ordinary justice to demand all the images and audios of the controversy played, which are in power of the Real Spanish Federation of Football (RFEF). The federative body confirmed to the Barça that will not facilitate said material, since never it does it with any of the clubs of the competition.

The Monday, the RFEF published a video in his social networks of the conversations between César Soto Degree, main referee of the meeting and José María Sánchez Martínez, responsible maximum of the VAR, on the played controversies of the Classical, between them the 'no goal' of Lamine and the penalti committed by Pau Cubarsí on Lucas Vázquez. However, the video only includes an extract of the review of both played, insufficient to determine if the referees hit or no with his decisions.

The Barça looks for justice and fix a precedent in Spain

The aim of the club is to force to the RFEF to deliver all the images and audios of the Classical through an order. This is the first time that sucede something similar in Spain, but no in Europe. The Disciplinary Council of the League of Belgium ordered the repetition of the party between the Anderlecht and the Genk (2-1 in December of 2023) by an error of the VAR that caused the cancellation of a legal goal to the Genk. However, this no sucedió because of the intervention of the court of the Belgian sport (BAS) in favour of the local group.

"To confirm that it was a legal goal, will go further and no descartamos ask the repetition of the party, as it has occurred in a party of European field by an error of the VAR", warned Joan Laporta in a communiqué spread the Monday through the social networks of the Barça. Now, the club will expect for obtaining the material that allow esclarecer it sucedido in the Classical of the Sunday, although the options that they prosper the interests culés are minimum.

The president @JoanLaportaFCB: "there are tools like the VAR that have to help to have a juster competition and no the other way around" pic.twitter.com/qdmav3bp3e

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