The Kings League finished the first split of the season under the watchful eye of 92,522 spectators who filled the Camp Nou Spotify. The new project led by Gerard Piqué has turned out to be a resounding success in terms of audience and publicity levels. However, not everyone linked to traditional football liked the final four last Sunday.
One of those who made his anger public in public was the president of the Unió Esportiva Sants, Joan Forcadell. In the Tu Diràs program of RAC1, he criticized his footballer Cristian Ubón for leaving his club in the game on Sunday morning, an important game because the Barcelona team is playing salvation from the Third RFEF.
“Until now he had arranged it very well and we expected him to do the same on Sunday. We believe that, surrounded by all this media circus, he received pressure not to go to the game,” said Forcadell, who hours before had also charged against Ubón in other media . Sants lost 3-2 against Vilafranca, a direct rival in relegation. He is currently penultimate in group 5 of Tercera RFEF, three points from remaining with four games to go before the end of the league.
The reply was immediate from the Kings League Twitch channel. In the gathering to analyze the final phase and everything that happened at the Camp Nou, Kun Agüero insulted the president of the modest club for not empathizing with the player.
“I don’t know the president, but he’s quite an asshole. How are you going to get him out of living that experience? It’s incredible to be in the Barcelona stadium. What are they playing for? It’s me and tomorrow I’ll tell him ‘to take it up the ass'” “Commented the former Argentine soccer player and gave an example of other boys present in the broadcast who had not had problems with their clubs to attend the Kings League event.
Cristian Ubón, player of the champion El Barrio and MVP of the Kings League, assured that he had not missed any game with his team. I have gone to every game and every training session with the Kings League in the afternoon.” Ubón told the coach the day before that he would not go to play. He was convinced by former Argentine soccer players Martín Mantovani and Nico Pareja.
Piqué assured during the debate that “the Kings League will try to regulate everything so that there are no such problems.” Currently, by contract, the league only forces players to go to games on Sundays, although it is suggested that they also attend as many training sessions as possible with teams led by streamers and former soccer players such as the aforementioned Agüero or Iker Casillas.
The vast majority of Catalan regional soccer players have tried from the outset to combine the two competitions. However, there have been cases where players, mostly young people in their twenties, have been forced to choose between one option or another. The threat of the Kings League in modest football could increase if the weekly salary increases (70 euros) in the future, as Piqué himself promised for the second part of the season due to the success of the league, which has exceeded even your expectations.
