On Thursday the harsh sanction of the
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Stefan Savic
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Simeone
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Atlético de Madrid after the second leg of the Champions League round of 16 against the Chelsea in London. Four games against Montenegrin, 24,000 euros to the club, the same amount to the Cholo… An outrage, as described by the Metropolitan, and a new offense from the highest body of European football.
And it is that the history between Atlético and UEFA comes from afar. From far away. Because the mattress entity, historically, has not been well treated by this body.
1974 – GLASGOW
Atlético played in the semifinal of the European Cup against Celtic. The first leg, known as ‘The Battle of Glasgow’, featured the Turkish referee Babacan, which expelled Ayala already Baker Diaz. After to Quique, and the clash ended with a tangana in which Celtic players, Scottish fans and even the police intervened. Even the Scottish coach punched Ayala.
The UEFA delegate, the Englishman Mc Null, requested that the Spanish club be suspended and expelled from European competitions and Celtic asked to contest the return on a neutral field. That request was not successful and Atlético won a ticket to the final in Brussels that played against Bayern Munich.
1993 – OLYMPIACOS
In the quarterfinals of the Recopa de Europa, Atlético faced Olympiacos. In the first leg, in Athens, the rojiblancos drew a meritorious 1-1 after a battle in which the referee did not indicate a clear penalty on Manolo alfaro. The mattresses endured the harshness of the Greeks, but in the end, everything exploded.
Alfaro he was hunted from behind by a Hellenic defender; the local players took him off the field and when the Atlético masseur went to attend to him he got a header from an Olympiacos player and set up a tangana. In the final moments Schuster he was about to take a corner when the referee whistled the end; the German picked up one of the hundreds of objects that fell to show it to the referee and the Hellenes surrounded him and Solozábal, which took a header from Mistibon. The police officers present, instead of protecting them, also beat Sabas Y Schuster. The mattresses left the field amid an intense rain of objects.
After the clash, the UEFA delegate, the Serbian Dusan Maravic, he got rid of the dead man saying that it had been “the typical match between Mediterranean teams.” On top of that, the body sanctioned both teams almost equally: 75,000 euros for the Greeks, 42,600 for Atlético.
1993 – PARMA
And after surpassing Olympiacos, in the semifinals he played Parma, who would end up being the champion. A calamitous arbitration from the German Schmidhuber, who did not award two penalties on Sabas Y Solozábal In the final minutes (Atlético lacked a goal to come back), Juanito was sent off, he threw the ball to the referee and finished the game, Vizcaíno and Alfaro also saw the red. Even the Italian press admitted the homemade arbitration of the German, whom Jesus Gil He accused of having allowed himself to be bought by Parma in exchange for $ 300,000.
UEFA took action on the matter but not in the direction that Atlético expected. He put six games of suspension to Jesus Gil Y Juanito, five to Schuster, four to Thomas, three to Toni and two to Vizcaino. He also fined the team 50,000 euros.
1994 – CRETE
Again in Greece. This time, in the UEFA Cup, in the round of 32, against the Ofi of Crete. After a 1-0 at Calderón, Atlético suffered a regrettable refereeing on Greek soil. Czech Jiri Ulrich decreed a penalty that was not Caminero, who was also expelled. Diego saved the penalty, but the referee understood that the ball had crossed the line, when it was not. The rojiblancos were eliminated. Until the ever temperate Lazarus
Albarracín He called it a “robbery.”
Atlético asked for the game to be repeated since one of the goals had not entered … and UEFA decided but in another sense: it suspended Caminero for five games for assault and fined Atlético with 21,600 euros.
2008 – OLYMPIC OF MARSELLA
Atlético hosted Olympique de Marseille in the group stage of the Champions League. The ultras of the French box, led by the already famous Santos Mirasierra, who ended up arrested, staged incidents inside the Vicente Calderón with the Police that went around the world.
Well, despite having nothing to do with the matter, UEFA, then chaired by Platini, decided to punish Atlético de Madrid in an excessive way. Vicente Calderón closed two games (in the end he stayed in one, which was played without an audience before the PSV) and 150,000 euros fine.
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