Barcelona forward Raphinha has said that the club was robbed after getting eliminated from the Champions League by Atlético Madrid. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, despite the club already failing with its official complaint to UEFA over the failure to award them a penalty in the first leg, the referee still made lots of errors last night.
The Brazilian added that the repeated mistakes is proof that the officials didn’t want Barca to qualify for whatever reason.
His words, “The game was completely robbed.
The referee had a lot of problems. Some of the decisions he took were incredible. I don’t know how many fouls Atlético made and he didn’t book them.
It’s human to commit one error, but for it to happen again in another game? We played really well, but this tie was robbed from us.
It was tough, especially when we see that we need to put in three times the effort to win the match.
I really want to understand why [the referee] is so scared of Barça getting through the tie.”
WOW.
Futbol Club Barcelona is a professional football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of Spanish football.
Founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, Catalan, German, and English footballers led by Joan Gamper, the club has become a symbol of Catalan culture and Catalanism, hence the motto “Més que un club” (“More than a club”). Unlike many other football clubs, the supporters own and operate Barcelona. It is the third-most valuable sports team in the world, worth $5.51 billion, and the world’s fourth richest football club in terms of revenue, with an annual turnover of €582.1 million.
The official Barcelona anthem is the “Cant del Barça”, written by Jaume Picas and Josep Maria Espinàs. Barcelona traditionally play in dark shades of blue and garnet stripes, hence nicknamed Blaugrana.
In March 2021, Lionel Messi overtook Xavi’s record of 767 games played for the club, and presently has made 778 official appearances in all competitions, while also holding the record for the most appearances in La Liga matches for Barcelona, with 520.
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