San Lorenzo are streetwise. Their president, Matías Lammens, began to play the final against Real Madrid minutes after they secured qualification in hard-fought fashion. He did it in AS.
“Might Madrid fear the violent game? In any case, San Lorenzo have to worry about Pepe,” he said.
To the ears of the San Lorenzo president arrived a rumour that yesterday ran strongly in every corner of Marrakech: the Club World Cup was destined to be officiated by the Portuguese referee Pedro Proença.
So after complaining strongly on Argentine radio about the refereeing of the Australian Williams in the clash against Auckland City (“he whistled for a foul for nothing more than a touch”), he spoke once again: “Nobody can deny the power of Real Madrid in terms of their ability to lobby and their habit of playing this kind of tournament.”
Gone was the discrete image of the team against Auckland and now the objective is to try to determine the referee of the final. A stunt. Sources of both clubs confirmed to this newspaper that Proença was to be the referee because he retires this year and FIFA wanted to honour him. However, neither clarified why and how FIFA was going to violate its own rules of competition (to appoint a referee from a different Confederation to both teams).
“Our lobby or capacity to influence is zero. They have taken away Proença,” said a Madrid source.
The San Lorenzo dressing room, meanwhile, warns: “We are going to make them feel the friction.”
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