Joan Laporta threw the bait and, wham, Real Madrid bit. The long appearance of the president of FC Barcelona to give explanations about the Negreira case served to radically change the topic of discussion. The white club has been "favored by arbitration decisions historically and currently, for whatever reasons," said the president. "A club that has been considered the team of the regime," he added.
Florentino Pérez got angry. By the reaction of the club it can be intuited that a lot. The white president could have called one of the journalists he trusted to respond to Laporta. But no, his option was to order the Real Madrid social media team to prepare a video to try to explain why Barça was more of a team for the regime. It is not that Real Madrid were not, it is that in Chamartín they defend that Franco pampered his eternal rival more.
"What was the regime's team?" Real Madrid asks in the tweet that the club posted on its profile, with 47 million followers, for a few hours. The message is close to 100 million views. Social media responded.
There are those who saw the response of the whites as “legitimate and intelligent”. The most staunch even boasted of a "historical zasca". Even Paco Buyo, @francisco_buyo, expressed his opinion, recalling that Franco would have helped Barça financially, reclassifying the old Les Corts pitch. He didn't mention the thing about the old sports city where the goalkeeper trained and now there are five skyscrapers.
On the blaugrana side, the clearest tweet was published by @2010MisterChip. The debate before the press conference was why Barça paid Negreira. The question now is which team Franco was from. Conclusion of the tweeter: "Laporta 1, Florentino, 0".
The issue escalated to politics. The Generalitat described Real Madrid's tweet as "an offense and an insult to the thousands of people who suffered under the Franco regime, including FC Barcelona". And Villacís, whose days could be numbered in politics, joined in by tweeting: "The Real Madrid regime is called the European Cup."
Who was more than Franco? By titles, Real Madrid wins by a landslide: fourteen leagues and six European Cups. Barça: eight national championships. Sir Alex Ferguson, the historic manager of Manchester United, already spoke clearly fifteen years ago when he said that "Real Madrid, as Franco's club, got what it wanted".
