Valladolid against Ronaldo

Posted by Borris Becker on Mar 18, 2010 in General | 4 comments

Ok. I cannot just remain in a SHUT UP mode after watching it time and time again. The match against Valladolid last weekend really showed where football in general and especially La Liga is going in terms of ethics and moral character of football players.

For those who still do not know what I am talking about, Ronaldo was literally HACKED at every opportunity Valladolid defenders got to the ground. They made horrific fouls on him which should have prompted the referee to produce some red cards but sadly he refused to even take out a single one.

Every Real Madrid player said after the match that Valladolid went over the line in far too many situations and yet the referee could not see what was going on. I know EPL is tough and really physical but the fouls defenders make over there are within the limits of BELIEVABILITY but the fouls on Ronaldo in the Valladolid game were just outrageous.

I would even go on to say that Valladolid players should be jailed for what they did to Ronaldo in that game. Made some bad tackles and BAD probably is an understatement but the most disgusting part is that the referee continued to ignore them all. It was quite clear from the start that Valladolid players were under specific instructions to physically hurt Ronaldo because apparently that is the only way one can stop his attacking venom so what did they do? They fouled Ronaldo not out of necessity or by mistake but they deliberately made tackles that would hurt Ronaldo so that he would get discouraged to receive the ball afterwards in order to protect himself.

The guy I specifically want to talk about is Nivaldo. This guy literally stomped on Ronaldo twice after he grabbed Ronaldo and threw him into the ground. Ronaldo was cut just above and below the knee and the more absurd part is that the referee did not see that and totally dismissed Ronaldo’s claim when Ronaldo showed him the cut he got from Nivaldo’s feet. Disgusting, would probably undermine the magnitude of lowness that Nivaldo went to in that game.

I mean, I cannot believe how Real Madrid are letting go of this situation as I think they should appeal to the FA to either show Nivaldo a red card or ban him for some games and if I was in charge I would ban him for atleast a year with no salary as what he did is unacceptable from a professional and even from a human being.

He has set a bad example for the kids and for the society as general and these sort of things do affect people when they see their heroes doing things like that they tend to think that it is just normal to do that in business and hence they adopt this ” Nothing personal just business” approach in their daily lives as well.

One other player that comes to mind is our very own Pepe in this regard but his situation I would say was a little bit different. He kicked the opponents striker because he barely touched the guy who went down (in order to get a penalty out of Pepe) as if he was bitten by a shark or somthing, that fueled Pepe’s anger, and by no means I am justifying his actions, which lead him to kick the attacker.

Whereas the Valladolid players had this very unsportsmanlike like attitude from the beginning of the game. I was really disappointed to read Valdano’s (Real Madrid sporting director I think) statement when he said that Real Madrid would not take any action as the match was over so the incident was over too. That does not make any sense, criminals like Nivaldo should not get away with things that he did to Ronaldo for two reasons, one is that it is dangerous to the other players career and second, it sets bad example for youngsters who want to grow up pursuing professional football.

Players like Nivaldo teach young people a bad lesson and thats, do what you have to do without give a hell about the other guy or more like ” Only winning counts, no matter how”. I don’t know why Valdano said that but what I do know is that I am really frustrated. Ronaldo even came to the coach to tell him that the Valldolid players were trying to hurt him not take the ball from him.

This is what Van der Vaart had to say about the Ronaldo Nivaldo incident:

“I believe Nivaldo’s tackle on Ronaldo should have resulted in a red card, but the referee didn’t see it. These things happen. I was very close and saw how his boot hit Cristiano’s leg. I’m glad he isn’t injured. He could have been seriously hurt.”

And this what Mr.Valdano had to say which is really really disappointing:

We do not want to create tension between anyone. We discuss events that took place during matches once they have concluded, but we try to turn the page as quickly as possible as long as there is no extremely serious matter to attend to.”

“We are putting too much blame on the referees and they usually do a good job, generally speaking. Officiating a Real Madrid match is not an easy task because there is a lot of pressure and there are many plays that are hard to see. We have the advantage of watching the game on television as well, which lets us see that something that originally looked like nothing is actually more serious than originally believed.”

That is all what I wanted to say. What do you guys think? Should Nivaldo be banned from football for at least some months for what he did to Ronaldo or do you think he was being a PROFESSIONAL doing his job? I want to KNOW your thoughts.

HALA MADRID!!!

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