“I offer you to win up to 50,000 euros if you let yourself win”. It’s the confession of Bye Benitez, a Girona player, who played first in ‘El BAR de Sique’ and then in ‘El Larguero’ on Cadena SER, remembered the conversation he had with a person who personally tried to convince him to accept a bribe because he had himself let lose. He admits that he became afraid of an unexpected and irregular situation.
LaLiga files a complaint hours later
The events have happened on the last day of the 16/17 season, something that has logically caused quite a stir in national football. After learning of Aday’s confession, LaLiga even decided to file a complaint a few hours after these statements filed a complaint with the National Police Center Integrity Sport and Games of Chance to clarify the facts.
“I don’t even know who the person was, I can’t remember his face”
To Cadena SER, Aday, who responded Girona and Tenerife explained that no football team has offered him a single euro to let himself win, but he specified that the attempted bribe came from a person he has not seen since: “I don’t even know who the person, I don’t remember his face,” he said.
“If you want to know more, I’ll come by again,” they told him
Despite Aday telling him he didn’t want to accept this blackmail, the person in question left the door open for a second meeting, to design the solution: “If you want to know more, I can come here again,” came to him tell Aday Benítez did not want to accept such a thing: “I told him that I was not the person, I was polite, but it scared me. So there was not the information that they gave us to the clubs lately to denounce set.”
Córdoba-Girona and a possible gambling problem
The match where this attempted fix took place was He Cordoba-Girona. Aday recalled that “Noor we played nothing, neither we nor Córdoba”. Asked if he thought it could be a gambling problem, Aday explained “isor did I understand. I already told you that I didn’t give him much more ball because I wasn’t interested in the subject. I explained it as an anecdote, but it doesn’t happen from here. In fact, I honestly don’t even know who the person is. I don’t even remember his face.”
Who is Aday Benítez, the former Girona player who admitted an attempted bribe for letting himself win in a Second Division game
He was born in Sentmenat, Barcelona, on December 16, 1987. His career developed in the promotion categories. In 2006, after being a youth player at Granollers, he signed with Third Division side Premia. In 2009 he made the jump to Second Division B, where he had a great season with Sant Andreu. In 2011 he signed for L’Hospitalet. And in 2013 he arrived in Tenerife and played in the Second Division. Then, a year later, he would sign a two-year contract with Girona.
Source: Goal