Former referee makes controversial claim about Real Madrid president Florentino Perez | OneFootball

In an explosive interview, former La Liga referee Eduardo Iturralde González has claimed that Real Madrid president Florentino Perez once tried to corner him after a game and asked him to referee the game ‘like he does for Barça’.

La Liga has been hit by the Enriquez Negreira scandal recently, with Barcelona under the scanner for payments to the former Vice-President of the Referees’ Committee.

Recently, the Prosecutor’s office decided to charge Barcelona and two of their former presidents with corruption for the same.

Real Madrid, who had been silent on the matter for long, announced that they were going to conduct a board before deciding their next course of action.

Amidst this, Los Blancos also released a video of all the mistakes that Iturralde Gonzalez had made while refereeing their games in the past.

The former official, who has been vocal about the Negreira scandal, then made sensational claims about Perez, stating that the Real Madrid president once tried to pressure him into making favourable decisions.

“In a 6-1 match against Deportivo or something like that, the game ends and we left the field and the assistants go off with me. There is a person who puts me in a room and tells me: ‘I only ask you to whistle at me the same as Barca,’” he said (h/t Mundo Deportivo).

“He’s from Real Madrid. I ask him to see if he’s making a joke and I tell him that the conversation is over. He wanted to put me alone in the room, but I told him no. After half an hour the Technical Committee already knew of Referees (CTA). I ​​brought it to their attention, it seemed very serious to me, but there it was. There was nothing.”

“The one who put me in a separate room was Florentino Perez. I don’t have to hide. It happened. There is a CTA report, because I made it known. So they can see what it means to pressure. I’m not going to hide,” he added.

It remains to be seen if there is any truth to these allegations made by the former referee and whether Real Madrid issue any statement on these comments against the club president.