The media announced the likelihood of a boycott by Real Madrid of the Spanish Cup final

The Real Madrid football club is likely to boycott the Spanish Cup final, where it is scheduled to play Barcelona, the Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported on April 25.

It is noted that Real Madrid demanded that the Spanish Football Federation replace the refereeing team in the upcoming game. The club expressed dissatisfaction with the appointment of referee Ricardo De Burgos Bengoechea for the match with the blue-garnet and demanded that he be suspended from the final, Sport-Express explained. After that, Bengoechea burst into tears at the pre-match press conference because of the rudeness he heard on the Cream club television.

"It's very hard when your child comes home crying because his father was called a thief at school," he said.

Referee Pablo Gonzalez Fuertes, appointed as an assistant referee in the video replays, promised that Real Madrid TV would face serious consequences for the video. In turn, the players and the club's management refused to hold a press conference before the final match, the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) reported.

"Real Madrid Football Club has informed RFEF that it will not hold a press conference and an official training session before the Spanish Cup final scheduled for today at the stadium in Seville," RFEF said on its X social network page. Twitter).

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The RFU will publish it in open sources twice a season.

On March 6, ESPN reported that the head coach of the French football club Lyon, Paulo Fonseca, was disqualified for nine months for assaulting a referee in the French championship match against Brest. It was clarified that the Lyon coach came into conflict with the chief referee, leaning too close to him to make claims. After Fonsek was removed from the field for being rude to the referee, he punched him in the face.