The Disciplinary Council (CD) of the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) announced on Tuesday the opening of an investigation process into the incident between Pepe and Colombatto at FC Porto-Famalicão in the Portuguese Cup semifinal.
At the end of the match, the Portuguese international accused the Argentine midfielder of calling him a “monkey”. After a heated discussion between the two players and the referee, where the Portuguese-Brazilian was visibly moved, at the end of the match, in statements to RTP, the FC Porto defender accused the rival of calling him “monkey” (monkey, in English ). Portuguese).
“It is sad that this happens among athletes of this level. Unfortunately the referee had no courage, he heard perfectly that he called me ‘monkey’. Everyone knows what it is, it is mono in Spanish”, revealed the defender. .
Pepe stated that he simply did not leave the pitch “out of respect for the people” who went to Dragão and “paid”, to those who “are at home watching a football game and pay for television” and to the “opponent”. Pepe also considered it “unfortunate” that episodes like this continue to occur in football, “even more so than the referee, who is the one in charge of the game.”
The 40-year-old man accuses Manuel Mota of having heard the insult and of not knowing how to act: “He was pissed off, saying he wasn’t cute, he was all pissed off.”
At this moment, Pepe recalled the existence of the VAR, which he hopes will “listen” to what happened.
The following day, Santiago Colombatto denied the accusations of the FC Porto player. “I want to think that it was a mistake, that you did not listen well to what I told you, although after analyzing your subsequent behavior I have doubts about it,” the outlet said in a statement posted on social networks.
“My words were literally ‘you kicked me, idiot’. There are images that prove it. In addition, I spoke to him in a close and friendly tone, in the context of a game and in line with what the figure of Pepe means to me So much so that after what happened I looked for him in the locker room to clarify what happened, but he didn’t even want to listen to me,” he explained.
Source: TSF
