The Uruguayan Real Madrid player attacked the Villarreal player near the Bernabéu parking lot
What happened at the Bernabeu? First, that Real Madrid lost at home and if they still had options to win the League, they seem to be gone. Secondly, that the VAR had to intervene twice to correct Alberola Rojas’ mistakes. Thirdly, if VAR had not intervened, Real Madrid would have won a game thanks to two foul errors by the referee. Fourth, that Fede Valverde waited for Álex Baena in a corridor near the parking lot at the end of the meeting and attacked and beat him.. Fifth, that Villarreal disclosed that Baena reported the facts to the national police. And sixth, that this unpleasant incident will in principle take place through a criminal procedure, stopping the sport, so that there would be no sanction for the Real Madrid player, who will not receive a sporting penalty, unless Baena decides to report the facts to the match committee, that it does not ex officio deal with incidents that have not previously been included in the Arbitration Act. Those are the only truthful, verified and indisputable facts.
In the background, crackling between the media noise and the dung heap of social networks, floats a sea of suspicions, accusations and different versions. The million-dollar question was immediately repeated shortly after the attack was known. What could have happened to Valverde to attack a fellow professional after the match? Only Valverde and Baena know. The rest, no. Curiously, just minutes after the attack, alleged words, phrases and phrases leaked by Valverde’s entourage to several journalists appeared so that instead of talking about an attack, they would focus on the alleged behavior of the victim.. Several media outlets and journalists told us that Baena had made a disgusting comment about the Real Madrid player’s son and once that version spread through social networks, a media debate full of platitudes, suspicions, cheap comments, parallel lawsuits and attempts to justify violence by repeating that one does not want to justify it was generated and fed. “Baena must have told him something very serious that Valverde did that,” he repeated over and over. Later a recurring cipher was used, the use of the conditional. “If Baena said that…”. Then another conditional to give context: “If they tell me that…”
The reality is that no matter how much we speculate, only Fede Valverde and Álex Baena know what happened in the previous cup game, what happened in the league game and what happened between the two, so the situation ended with an attack that ended up being reported to the police station. The truth is that people around Valverde and Real Madrid leaked some alleged words to several journalists that allegedly provoked the Uruguayan’s backlash, words that Baena flatly denies. Do you remember what Juan Cala supposedly said to Mouctar Diakhaby? Well this is similar. For now there are no images, no audio. Valverde’s environment, not Valverde himself, accuses. And Baena denies it. A thorny, annoying issue, with sharp edges and an ideal breeding ground for the hate culture that has definitively nestled itself in the gigantic dung heap of social networks. Only Valverde and Baena know what happened. They will have to decide whether they want to tell what happened or let third parties speak through their mouths. The rest of us are left with a distorted, conditioned and reported truth, to suit the consumer’s taste. And the color of the shirt. That’s how it goes
Reuben Uria
Source: Goal