Joan Laporta threw the hook and Real Madrid stung. 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. From the reaction of the club you can sense that a lot. The white president could call one of his trusted journalists to answer Laporta. But no, his choice was to order the Real Madrid social media team to prepare a video to try to explain why Barça was more of a regime team. It's not that Real Madrid wasn't, it's that Chamartín defends that Franco took more care of the eternal rival.
"Which 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 approaching 100 million views. Social media responded.
There are those who saw the response of the whites as "legitimate and intelligent". The most staunch ones even boasted of a "historic flist-flast".
Even Paco Buyo, @francisco_buyo, opined, recalling that Franco would have helped Barça financially, by requalifying the old Les Corts field. That of the old sports city where the goalkeeper trained and now there are five skyscrapers he did not mention.
On the Barça 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 was Franco. Tweeter's conclusion: "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 Begoña Villacís, whose days may be numbered in politics, joined in by tweeting: "The regime of Real Madrid is called the European Cup".
Who was more of Franco? In terms of titles, Real Madrid wins by a landslide: fourteen leagues and six European Cups. Barça: eight national championships.
Sir Alex Ferguson, the historic coach of Manchester United, already spoke clearly fifteen years ago when he said that "Real Madrid, as Franco's club, got what it wanted".
