The Barcelona footballer wanted Luis Rubiales to intercede with the Under-23 team coach to get to the Olympics and blamed Sergio Ramos for publicly asking for the same.
After the leak of audios and documents that established that Gerard Pique, through his company Kosmos, and the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) managed to bring the Spanish Super Cup to Arabia saudi, El Confidencial have revealed new audios in which the Barcelona defender asks Luis Rubiales to intercede with the coach of the Under-21 team to be present at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 .
In the recordings sent on June 22, 2019, after the classification of the Hispanic group, Pique sent a message to Rubiales, asking for extreme confidentiality. “What’s up Ruby, how are you? I’m here in the Bahamas and just watched the U21 game against Poland, what a great game, man! Look how hard they had it, huh? God! How they qualified for the Olympics… You gotta do it for me, huh, Rubi, you gotta do it for me, damn it. It gives me the illusion that you play at the Olympic Games. And we have to keep it very secret, man ”.
At the end of this meeting, and in the midst of negotiations to bring the Spanish Super Cup to Saudi Arabia, the president of the Hispanic federation granted the request. “Of course, we must keep the secret and the coach [de la Fuente]if he trusts, wants and throws forward, I’m delighted . I would like you to come to [selección] Absolutely, we don’t need you anymore. […] I’m happy to lend a hand. »
This call is given because the regulations of the Olympic Games allow each team to have up to three players over the age of 23 to complete the list. So Pique, 32 at the time, was fighting for one of those spots.
“Rubi, above all, if you talk to the U21 coach tomorrow, keep it super confidential. If you can tell her, let it be something between us, let no one else know […] If it leaks, there will be other players who want to go and it will be a problem for him. [de la Fuente] also “, noted the footballer.
Sergio Ramos interest
months later Sergio Ramos a new player interested in being present at the ringside event joined, of course this idea was expressed publicly with the appearance of an article in the newspaper El Mundo.
Given this, Pique asked Rubiales if he knew anything about it and got the answer: “First news. No idea. Say I’ve been stone. And today I was with him [Sergio Ramos]. I don’t think that’s true.”
But two days later, the RFEF president contacted the Barca player to confirm interest from Ramos who was criticized for his actions. “Geri, what you told me about Sergio [Ramos], I feel it’s true, because they told me they wanted to talk to me. I’m going to tell you things ”. Pique’s response was clear:filter it first [a la prensa] putting pressure is a lot his style [refiriéndose a Ramos] ”.
In the end, everything was slowed down by the pandemic and the postponement of the Olympics to 2021. At the time of the Games Ramos suffered a calf injury and was left out like Pique. So coach Luis de la Fuente’s call-up included Dani Ceballos, Marco Asensio and Mikel Merino as the over-23 players who starred in the tournament and took them to the silver medal after winning lost in the final against Brazil.
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