The Portuguese Professional Football League (LPFP) and Sporting de Braga repudiated today, in press releases, the attack against a photojournalist, after the game, in Braga, between Braga and Arouca, for the 21st round of the I Liga.
According to the newspaper O Jogo, photojournalist Gonçalo Delgado was headbutted by a Sporting de Braga fan in one of the elevators at the Estádio Municipal de Braga. The newspaper adds that the attacker fled, but that a complaint was filed against him before the PSP.
“Liga Portugal presents a word of solidarity to the photojournalist Gonçalo Delgado, who was at the service of O JOGO at the Estádio Municipal de Braga, repudiating this and any verbal or physical aggression against elements of the media, which occur in stadiums or in the surroundings of the same”, can be read in the communiqué of the League.
This body also calls on supporters so that “situations like the ones that occurred today at the Estádio Municipal de Braga, and a week ago at the Estádio de Alvalade, with two CMTV teams, do not happen again, demonstrating, as always has, total availability to, together with the authorities, find mechanisms to eradicate any type of violent behavior in Portuguese stadiums”.
Sporting de Braga also condemned the attack on the photojournalist after the match against Arouca -Arsenal’s 2-0 victory- and was “fully available to collaborate with the authorities” for the rapid identification of the attacker.
“SC Braga repudiates any act of violence and therefore censures the behavior observed in an elevator at the Estádio Municipal de Braga after the match against FC Arouca, the result of an altercation between two individuals. This behavior becomes particularly serious when the offended person is someone duly accredited for the performance of their professional duties”, write the ‘arsenalists’ in their note.
The Braga club said it had already “directly expressed its support and solidarity with the offended person,” adding that it had taken “procedures to determine responsibilities.”
Source: TSF
