Al -Malab newspaper – The end of the Club World Cup final between Paris Saint -Germain and the English Chelsea witnessed tension between Spanish coach Luis Enrique (55 years old), and Chelsea striker Joao Pedro (23 years old), at a summit in which Portuguese Portuguese player Joao Neves, in the 86th minute, was subjected to the hair of Spanish defender Mark Kokurilla, before the matter escalated dramatically with the final whistle, Knowing that Chelsea settled the match by beating Paris by three clean at the Mettlif Stadium in New Jersey in New York.
The cameras showed that the quarrel began to exchange the debate after the final whistle, between some Paris Saint -Germain players, including the Portuguese Nuno Mendes and the Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnaroma and the Moroccan Ashraf Hakimi, with the Chelsea player, Brazilian Andre Santos, before Joao Pedro intervened in an attempt to defend his fellow fellow Enrique, the latter replied by placing his left hand on the face of the Brazilian striker, which led to the fall of the ground, amid attempts by defender Priecel Kembembe to calm his coach and keep him away from the scene before matters worsen.
After the atmosphere calmed down, Enrique was keen to clarify what happened to justify his behavior, and he said in a statement during the press conference, highlighted by the French Radio MC Sport website: “At the end of the match, there was a situation that could be avoided, my intention is as it is always, the separation of the players was so that there were no additional problems, we all had to prevent the exacerbation of the situation, there was a lot of tension and pressure, I saw some of the players. And others pay it, these are situations that we all must avoid, and for this reason I interfered to separate the players. ”
For its part, the Spanish newspaper Marca revealed that Enrique was explicitly directed to his assistants immediately after the incident, according to the cameras of the Dazen network by reading the lips of the Spanish coach, and the former coach of the Barcelona team said in his speech: “I am stupid, he was standing in this way, pushing me, touched him and fell to the ground.” On the other hand, the newcomer in Chelsea, Joao Pedro, commented in his interview with the Sport TV channel, according to what happened after the meeting, stressing that the Paris Saint -Germain players did not accept the loss, to add in this regard by saying: “I went to protect Andrei, I, like any good Brazilian, went to protect a friend, they did not know how to accept the loss.”
