Lendoiro: «Extremadura case, from an absurd strike to an unfair rule»

The former president of the Real Club Deportivo de La Coruña, Augusto Cesar Lendoiro, sent OKDIARIO an opinion article in which he talks about the strike carried out by Extremadura players due to defaults in recent months. In addition, Lendoiro comments on the current situation of his Depor, currently in a privileged position to qualify for promotion to the SmartBank League.

This is the full content of the article by Augusto César Lendoiro.

Who buys me this mess? will be the question that fans and clubs will be asked today by the final decision? of the Extremadura players who, against all odds, abandoned their strike yesterday without achieving their goal of receiving the six months owed and just after the ruling of the Committee that gave the victory to Deportivo and subtracted three points from those already achieved by Extremadura. Perhaps one day they will clarify the nonsense of not showing up at Riazor and, without being paid, abandon the strike.

A priori you will think that Depor has been good, but I find it difficult to share that vision. I say this because I believe that sportsmanship was facing what could have been a great month, that we needed, and that it had begun with the news of, finally, clarifying Jimmy’s death, although the judge has already returned us to that incredible obscurantism court on a murder who turns seven on the 30th.

Sportingly, the non-appearance of Extremadura stopped the good moment of the blue and white, who, after the tumble against Unionistas, R.Unión and SD Logroñés, saw how the triumphs over Sanse, Zamora and UD Logroñés, and the tie in Santander, were united the youthful deeds in the Youth League, celebrated by a hobby that broke records of all kinds in Spanish football.

Everything, then, indicated that the team was going to more, because the coach and players had really taken the pulse of the competition, so the visit of the Extremadura headdress appeared as propitious to be able to rise with the theoretical leadership of the entire First RFEF, as confirmed by the current classification.

We would say that Depor had caught the good wave, that, if he took advantage of it, it should lead him to slide down the Riazor to that longed-for shore that is the professional league … and, curiously, when O Portiño Coruñés – City Hall and After Surf – prepares to try shortly take the world record for the giant wave from Nazaré.

That football scene collapsed with the suspension of the match and it has been a shame, because when things work well it is not convenient to touch them. Hence my reflection because I do not think that winning the three points, without playing, is something to celebrate and less if, as I am afraid, clubs that looked the other way when we were unjustly attacked by LaLiga in the “Fuenlabrada case”. They are going to demonstrate to point out to us as the great beneficiaries.

Those who surely would not celebrate it would be the teams that the performance of Extremadura can significantly harm, if they do not appear for a next league match, because that failure to appear would bring with it the expulsion and the application of an unfair regulatory rule. Hopefully that doesn’t happen.

It would be logical that, if unfortunately it were to occur, some would have every reason to protest, because while the federal rule would grant some clubs three points without playing – which can mean getting rid of relegation or entering play off – to others, who have already played, will have to stick to the results produced.

That would cause some entities to be greatly benefited or greatly harmed by the improper action of a third party, and that injustice should be imputed to the RFEF, for not modifying this unfortunate article before, of whose painful application the recent antecedents of the Cerro de Reyes already exist. on [email protected] and from Reus in [email protected]

It is essential that, at least, the RFEF take advantage of this situation to modify, in its first Assembly, this nonsense article that generates unfair damages for some and absurd benefits for others, derived from the criticizable conduct of a third party, which should only affect the offender.

The “Extremadura case” is a low blow for this incipient First RFEF that was born with the pretense of being the serious prelude to professional football and that, after the madness of the competitive system designed last year by “enemies” of Luís Rubiales, helped to that historical clubs and cities that should become the locomotive of the new category (Hercules, Real Murcia, Córdoba, Recreativo …) did not access and led to the arrival of others with difficulties to assume the obligations of a league that yearns to resemble the professional.

Some clearly enjoy complicating the simple. The RFEF would have avoided the latent problem by approving a rule that repealed the current one and that, in a situation similar to the current one, would eliminate, for all purposes, the results of the matches played by the expelled club, reducing the league to the other 19 clubs.

Another thing is if you ask me how to explain the attitude of a squad that in seven days goes from demanding their right to charge, to losing by not showing up, seeing their club sanctioned with three points of those already achieved and risk of expulsion … and , without being paid, abandon the strike. Without more data, a nonsense worthy of study.

Augusto Cesar Lendoiro
Former President RCDeportivo.
P.S. As a man forged in modest football from A Coruña, my emotional congratulations to all of Victoria, CF for this historic qualification for the Copa del Rey.