Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, at the Santiago Bernabéu. /
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The president of PSG is exposed to harsh punishment, as is sports director Leonardo, for his aggressive behavior at the Bernabéu
UEFA decided on Thursday to open disciplinary proceedings against the PSG president, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, and the French club’s sports director, Leonardo, for their behavior after the French team’s elimination from the Champions League against Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabéu. According to the referee’s report, “the president and the technical director of PSG showed aggressive behavior and tried to enter the referees’ locker room.” “When the referee asked them to leave, they blocked the door and the president deliberately hit the pennant of one of the attendees, breaking it,” added the Dutchman Danny Makkelie who directed PSG-Real Madrid.
Al-Khelaïfi and Leonardo are exposed to a harsh sanction from UEFA, although its Disciplinary Regulations only reflect match suspensions for players and coaches for unsportsmanlike conduct and aggressiveness against referees. Said regulation does not stipulate that managers be sanctioned with matches, but it will depend on the referee’s report transferred to the UEFA delegate. Leonardo has already been suspended for two years from his position in France for pushing a referee in the locker room tunnel.
The PSG coach, Mauricio Pochettino, could also be sanctioned, in his case sportingly, for his criticism of the referee and the VAR, considering “a shame” that Benzema’s fault was not pointed out to Donnarumma in the action that led to the 1 -1 at the Bernabeu.
Disastrous was the image of a sore loser that Al-Khelaïfi left again after the defeat suffered by PSG against Real Madrid in the round of 16. The president of PSG, outraged by the arbitration of the Dutch policeman Danny Makkelie, went down to the locker room in search of the braid. Bursting into screams and hitting, the top leader of PSG wanted to talk to Makkelie to reproach him for his performance at the Santiago Bernabéu and his anger reached such a point that the police had to be called before the turn the brawl was taking, according to Mónica Marchant in Movistar +.
The truth is that it rained on wet, because something similar happened in Paris. Despite the fact that PSG would end up winning with a goal from Mbappé at the buzzer, Al-Khelaïfi and Leonardo went down at half-time to try to intimidate the Italian Daniele Orsato, referee of the first leg played at the Parc des Princes. The attitude of both stunned the directors of Real Madrid, who maintain a bitter confrontation with their PSG counterparts.
