Carlos Herrera could not gather the necessary guarantees to present his candidacy for the presidency of the Royal Spanish Football Federation. The journalist needed 21 supports from the General Assembly to be able to participate in the elections, but he did not reach this minimum and Pedro Rocha will soon be inaugurated as the new president of the RFEF.
In an interview he gave to the show El Partidazo de la Cadena COPE, Carlos Herrera revealed the six clubs that gave him their support: Real Betis, Villarreal, Rayo Vallecano, Getafe, Levante and Ponferradina. A figure which excluded him from the electoral race.
However, in recent hours, the information has gone viral, and it is not because of his candidacy for the RFEF. but for the explanation he gave a long time ago about his resignation to continue being ass. Taking advantage of his desire to preside over the Federation, several Catalan media – Como World of sport- They highlighted his comments about Barça and The reactions were not long in coming.
The announcer said in various interviews that he had always been a member of Barça and Betis, but that certain attitudes made him “break” with the Barça club. “I am a Betic. I have also been a fan of Barcelona for many years. What happens is that because of Barça’s positioning with the Catalan independence movement, of which I am a fierce enemy, I said Never again. And that was never the case again. It’s a shame,” he said in a statement to Bertín Obsborne’s “My house is yours.”
A club serving criminals
“Is it striking that institutions of Catalan civil society, essential to a notable balance, such as Barça, can be victims of disaffection in large areas due to having supported, in the first place, criminals, condemned? and, furthermore, participate, as Guardiolas, Hernández and others do, in the actions of all this scum? Well, you see, but it’s a club serving criminals. At that moment I stopped wearing the Barça jersey.”he condemned.
Today, his words, spoken a few years ago, have caused a real fire in “X” where there is no shortage of insults against the communicator.
“You are a Judas”, “You are as much a Barça fan as Pedrerol”. “You’ve never been to Barça, you don’t change teams”, “fascist, fun, we don’t want you at Camp Nou”, These are some of the comments flooding the social network.