Outrage that Racing was not stopped – Elche
When lives are on the line, the ball takes a backseat. Except yesterday in El Sardinero, during the race in Elche, where In Southern Preference, a fan suffered two cardiac arrests, but the game, nevertheless, was not interrupted..
Racing can take advantage of having cardiac surgeon Jose Antonio Fernandez-Divag (known as Doctor Divar), who, without a moment’s hesitation, grabbed his support equipment and sprinted across the field from the technical area to the stands where the incident took place, and look after the subscriber, 58 years old.
Alarmed by what had happened, the El Sardinero crowd did not stop whistling, forgetting what was happening inside the playing field. But the game didn’t stop. La Liga protocol establishes that this is the authority of the referee. (yesterday Gonzalez Esteban) stop the gamesomething that didn’t happen yesterday.
He La Liga Match DirectorJuan Cantero explained to him through the fourth referee that the situation was “under control”. What would happen if a player from each team had to be treated on the field if there was a race doctor in the stands? Because the match was not stopped, the ambulance (which was located in the North End) was unable to cross the pitch to treat the fan who They had to be carried out of the stadium onto the street on stretchers..
And the Racing captain, expelled
There is other collateral damage after what happened yesterday. Inigo Sainz-Masa, Racing captain which was replaced at rest, was excluded in stoppage time while talking to La Liga match director Juan Cantero, albeit outside the technical area, about why the match was not stopped.
Gonzalez Esteban later wrote in his arbitration report that “Get up from the bench and leave the technical area persistently demands that the fourth referee stop the match due to a medical incident in the stands“When the game stopped, he continued to stand outside the technical area, unable to hear what he was saying.”.
The match director himself explained to the referee after the end of the match that I spoke to him, and not in a tone of protest.but asked what the protocol was in this case. Racing will appeal the suspension.
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