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“We are facing one of the most serious cases that I have seen in Portuguese football in recent times,” said Francisco J. Marques on Tuesday night, in Porto Canal, referring to the ban on the Estádio do Jamor, announced hours before by the Liga Portugal.
“This is not a detail, it is a ‘detail'”, continued the FC Porto Information and Communication Director, and then went on to the explanations that, in the end, include the reception of Belenenses SAD at Benfica, on the 22nd Round of the League.
“Sporting played against Sacavenenses for the Portuguese Cup in Jamor and the pitch was free for two weeks to host the game. In the weeks before FC Porto left for Jamor, to play against Belenenses SAD, there were several rugby matches, a modality that greatly degrades the grass, due to the way of playing, the contraction of the boots on the ground that tears the grass, and there were also games for the Estoril sub-23, causing the degradation that was seen in the grass in very, very bad condition. But despite that miserable condition it was validated by an inspection of the League in the week prior to the transfer of FC Porto “, he revealed.
And he continued: “Whose responsibility is this? Of the IPDJ, of the Portuguese State, which owns Jamor. This has nothing to do with Belenenses SAD, nor with the FPF, it is with the IPDJ … Secretary of State, the Minister of Education and the Prime Minister. By degrees, that is the hierarchy. However, today there was an inspection by the League that said that grass was prohibited. “
Regretting the situation, Francisco J. Marques pointed to the Portugal League for the consequences of the measure just adopted. “Belenenses SAD – Nacional on February 20 will be played in Mafra. The pitch will recover in this period of time, there will be no rugby matches, or sub-23 in Estoril, nor the devil in four and the pitch will be A toy for the next day 22, Belenenses SAD can return to the games of Jamor. On March 7, the court, I repeat, will be a toy to receive … Benfica! Brutal coincidence! friends, it is with the complacency and complicity of the League, which does not care about treating all clubs in the same way ”, he concluded.
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