Two and a half months after an attack that scandalized the world of football, there is already a proposed sanction, five matches, for Fede Valverde, the Uruguayan midfielder of Real Madrid who on April 8 assaulted his back and with a punch to the head of Villarreal footballer Álex Baena in the vicinity of the Bernabéu car park, after a League match between Real Madrid and Villarreal.
The sanction proposal refers exclusively to the sports issue that Antiviolence referred to the Competition Committee. Criminal proceedings are still open and the case will eventually end in a more than likely financial fine for the aggressor.
The resolution of the Federation instructor will now have to be ratified by the Competition Committee. The sanction will be official in the next 48 hours and will be fulfilled at the beginning of the next season, despite the fact that, in the event that the proceedings had proceeded more quickly, which is the power of the different committees and the instructor himself, could have served in the same season in which the offense took place.
Sources from Real Madrid assure that no matter if it is four or five games of suspension that they finally impose on their Uruguayan player, the legal services of the club will resort to it, first before the Appeal Committee of the Federation, which rarely does not ratify what Competition agrees.
If the five matches are confirmed, Valverde would miss the League matches against Athletic Club, Almeria, Celta, Getafe and Real Sociedad. The first three away from home and the last two at the Bernabéu. The incident took place in the vicinity of the Santiago Bernabéu car park, when Valverde approached Baena from behind and punched him in the face, which caused the Andalusian a bruise. The footballer from the Castellon team filed a complaint against the Real Madrid player the next day before the National Police.
In his decision, the investigating judge took into account the statements of the aggressor and the victim, the police report and the reports of the two clubs. In Real Madrid's allegations, the white club asked to mitigate the sanction by ensuring that there had been a provocation by the groguet player, an assertion always denied by the submariner. "Villa-real shows its rejection of any act of violence and firmly believes in the version of its player, who will be supported throughout this process," the club confirmed in a statement.
Real Madrid believes in the version of its player, who assures that the hook already came from the previous game of the Cup, in which Baena would have made fun of the difficulties to carry forward the pregnancy of Valverde's partner, the journalist argentina Mina Bonino: "Cry now that your child will not be born", he would have told her, according to Valverde's surroundings. The Uruguayan has never spoken publicly about the incident.
