The Seville FC strongly condemned, this Sunday, “the acts of vandalism” of a group of ultras who forced the team to sleep in its training center, the day before, following the 3-2 defeat on the field of Celta Vigo. A result that brings the Andalusian team closer to the threat of relegation. “The Seville FC firmly condemns the acts of vandalism organized this Saturday evening at the Ciudad Deportiva José Ramon Cisneros Palacios, when the first team arrived in its facilities after the match against Celta Vigo,” said the Sevillé club in a statement.
A hundred supporters of Seville FC – where the Zurich midfielder Djibril Sow and the Lucernois winger Ruben Vargas – gathered at the Club sports complex evolve to protest against his mediocre results. They tried to wait for the Seville delegation at the airport but did not succeed, they went to the team’s training ground to be heard. The bus carrying players and supervisory staff suffered projectiles, while the players were copiously insulted.
Some supporters have tried to invest the locals, but were contained by the police and the club’s security services.
Relegation
The Sevillian club – used to playing Europe – is in a sporting and financial crisis and still in danger, with only six points ahead of Las Palmas, the first relegation. “The Seville FC understands that the sports situation of the team, which is not the one that any severe would like to see, can lead to protests, but these are unacceptable if they are accompanied by assaults, threats or acts of vandalism,” said the press release.
In Galicia on Saturday evening, the Andalusian training failed to win despite its numerical superiority. Both injured, Djibril Sow and Ruben Vargas did not appear on the match sheet.
Following this violence, the club asked the security forces to determine those responsible for these events “despicable, perpetrated by a group of organized radicals, who acted with extreme violence”. In addition, the club “will denounce before the competent authorities the assaults of rare violence of which its employees, its players, its technical staff and its leaders have been victims when they arrived at the Ciudad Deportiva. Associations that forced the Seville first team to spend the night in the facilities, ”said the press release.
