Atletico Madrid’s Diego Simeone storms out of meeting with UEFA referees

Atletico Madrid supervisor Diego Simeone reportedly stormed out of a gathering with a UEFA delegation final week forward of their conflict with Alaves. The Atletico chief stays pissed off with what’s seen as an injustice at Atletico that Julian Alvarez’s double-touch penalty was dominated a miss of their Champions League elimination by the hands of Actual Madrid final season.

On Friday final week, as Los Colchoneros ready for his or her journey to Vitoria-Gasteiz, they have been visited by a UEFA delegation to debate rule modifications, with former referee Carlos Velasco Carballo. One of many alterations was to the ‘double-touch rule’, the place IFAB have now suggested that unintentional double-touches needs to be dominated as retakes, moderately than misses.

Simeone infuriated by UEFA officers

The sequence of occasions was first described by Ruben Uria in ‘The Membership de Uria’,  earlier than later being revealed by Diario AS. The UEFA group started to debate the double-touch rule, and Simeone requested why they weren’t utilizing the Alvarez incident. Velasco insisted that they’d one other incident chosen to analyse the rule. El Cholo identified that it was the Alvarez incident that provoked the ‘clarification’, and demanded that Velasco clarify the occasions on the Metropolitano, however Velasco had no intention of doing so. The stance, amid common scepticism surrounding the decision at Atletico, perplexed the gamers and Simeone.

Simeone storms out of assembly

Velasco continued his line of argument, saying that Alvarez touched the ball twice, and the incident wanted no additional rationalization. At this level, Simeone stood up, loudly declared ‘I really feel disgrace. Disgrace’, earlier than accumulating his issues, after which leaving the room.

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Atletico stay confused on the behaviour of UEFA, whereas Simeone then proceeded to hold out the following coaching session and press convention with out commenting additional on it. The matter is understandably extremely delicate for Atleti, with IFAB’s adjustment seemingly a tacit admission of the injustice of the prior rule.