The scandal among Spaniards that embarrasses handball: “He called me a shitty Chinese”

The images have gone around the world, and the unfortunate brawl that occurred in the Polish handball derby between Wisla Plock, coached by the Spanish Xavier Sabaté, and Kielce, coached by the also Spanish Talant Dujshebaev, jumped off the courts to continue with the tension experienced on Sunday in the microphones of Cadena Ser and COPE. The Polish first division duel was marked by violence both on and off the pitch, as well as spitting and racist insults.

According to the Polish sports press, during the duel, which pitted two of the most in-form teams in the competition, both teams played a tough game that led the referee to impose 21 two-minute suspensions and issue one red card and one blue card. . All this with the participation of Jorge Maqueda, one of the stars of Los Hispanos, who was the trigger after biting his rival Terzic up to three times.

After the expulsion of the Spanish player, everything got complicated on the field, and the two coaches got into a fight in the technical area to the point of insults and fist fights. Xavier Sabaté accused Talant Dujshebaev of grabbing him by the neck and spitting on him – he even said it was not the first time – while on the contrary, the Kielce player said that he had hurled racist insults at him such as “fucking fucking Chinese.”

«Everything has a limit. After the game the rival coach spat at me in front of the delegate. This is unacceptable. “This is not the first time something like this has happened and I cannot accept it,” said Sabaté. Some words that Dujshebaev responded to last night both in El Laguero de la Cadena Ser and in El Partidazo de Cope. «Being called ‘shitty Chinese’ hurts me even though there are people who find it amusing. I may have lost my temper later, but it made me feel bad. He knows that it hurts me a lot to judge myself for my color or my features. I have had to put up with this since I was 16 and flee places because of attitudes like this and I am not Chinese, I am from Kyrgyzstan, I am from my country and this hurts me. “Sabaté has done it premeditated,” he said.

Reconciliation did not occur in the radio media nor was tension reduced. «I lost my temper, I admit it, but I didn’t spit at anyone. He tells me that I grab him by the neck when I put a hand on his shoulder, so that in the end he has his interpretation. I think he will never agree with me and neither will I agree with him,” said the legendary former Ciudad Real player. «It is clearly seen in the images when he tells me, son of a bitch, I am going to kill you. Since everything is in a judicial process, everything will be seen. I fully condemn racism, we say things to each other that we shouldn’t say, I haven’t had any problems… I categorically deny that I called him a ‘shitty Chinese’. I never say any racist comment to him and that is what I take the worst, being accused of being racist. “I am going to take this process to the end,” argued Sabaté.

Two completely contrary versions and it is not known who is telling the 100% truth, although it is true that both recognized that the image they left for fans of both handball and sport in general is unacceptable. «We coaches don’t have to be friends. You have to respect yourself. In games things are said that are not intended. I made a very big mistake in this match and I have to apologize to the fans. My mistake is to provoke. That he calls me Judas during the games… I don’t care, but that he says things about my mother I don’t accept it,” Sabaté snapped. «Anyone who calls me a shitty Chinese, a son of a bitch… the first gesture I get is to salivate. I’ve screwed up 20,000 times in my life and yesterday too. “I went into trouble, I screwed up and I apologize to everyone who saw it,” said Dujshebaev.

Wisla Plock beat Kielce 29-25 in a very eventful match that will see the return match in 2025. Everything indicates that spirits will continue to burn.