Spanish soccer supervisor stirs enormous controversy in Italy, assaults personal participant in viral incident

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Contemporary controversy has struck Italian soccer, however this time it does not contain the Serie A or any of its gamers, groups. An incident occurred in Serie C the place Triestina’s Spanish soccer supervisor Pep Clotet had a second of insanity on Friday, grabbing and pushing his personal participant Raimonds Krollis, from Latvia, after he acquired a straight purple card for a problem.

Pep Clotet assaults his personal participant.

The altercation came about within the Thirty third-minute when Triestina took on Giana Ermino. After the purple card when Krollis was strolling off the pitch, and went to his supervisor. However Clotet misplaced his cool and held the attacker by his collar and started to shake him furiously.

Surprisingly, Krollis did not defend himself, and had a dejected expression. Triestina finally crashed to a 0-1 defeat as Gabriel Avinci scored a late winner within the 87th-minute.

After the match, the Spaniard defended his actions. Chatting with reporters, he stated, “I think, regarding the incident with the red card, the reaction was justified – that sending off should never happen in football.”

“Krollis is here on loan, representing another club that sent him here, and he does this to Triestina, to the club that entrusted him to us, and to the game itself.”

“What went through my mind? I have an eight-year-old son who saw this today. I come from a culture where this kind of behaviour is simply unacceptable. If a player does something like this on the street, there would be legal consequences. It’s not normal, and we must not accept it in any way,” he added.

In the meantime, Clotet additionally sacked Krollis, stating, “I told him exactly this face to face: with me as coach, he’s done with Triestina from today.”

Previously, Clotet has managed groups like Cornella, Espanyol B, Halmstad, Oxford United, Birmingham Metropolis, SPAL and Brescia. He has additionally labored as an assistant head coach at Leeds United, as a part of Garry Monk’s workers.