Infantino, on the ‘Negreira case’: “It worries us”

The case negreira’ It continues to generate chapters and reactions. A day after the number one court in Barcelona admitted the processing of the complaint from the Prosecutor’s Office and LaLiga and the complaint from Estrada Fernandez against him boat and that the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) also appeared as an accusation, another federative body, FIFA, also gave its opinion to censor an action that is still being investigated.

Your president, Gianni Infantino, He admitted that “I am concerned” about the impact generated by this arbitration controversy, which spans from 2001 to 2018, and assured that “it is not good for football”, according to EFE, while demanding “study what happened to see how it can be fixed”.

In the press conference offered after his re-election as president of the highest international body, at the Congress held this Thursday in Kigali, Infantino He referred to the judicial investigation opened in Spain for payments of 7.3 million euros to the former vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) for the preparation of arbitration reports. “Of course I observe everything that happens with the national teams and clubs and when there are negative situations we are concerned, because the clubs, especially the big ones, do a lot for football, not only for the city or the country but for around the world. “He commented, to add:” We are all human, we make mistakes and will examine what happened, for example in Spain, to see how it can be resolved.

infantino this case is framed in others. “We have had crises in different countries, also in Italy with big clubs involved.” And he generalized: “It’s not good for football, we all have to operate giving a positive boost, if possible, because it doesn’t help to make animosity grow. It’s more important to understand and find solutions,” he concluded.