The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) today opened an investigation into Real Madrid’s Spanish defender Sergio Ramos because of an anti-sportive behavior in the Champions League during a match against Amsterdam’s Ajax.
Ramos, captain of the Spanish pro team Real Madrid, committed a hard foul that earned him the yellow card as a penalty in the 88th minute of the match, when his team won winning by two goals to one and minutes before, he was discovered asking the club’s managing board of directors to do it.
With this yellow card, Ramos would miss the second leg of the round of 16, but he would get ‘clean’ to the quarterfinals if his team is classified as it thought at the time of committing the infringement.At the end of the match in a mixed zone, the central defender declared he had searched for the foul warning and he later recanted his statements on his own Twitter social network account, so UEFA opened a process of investigation.
The sanction could be between the two or three parties without intervening in the European competition and the verdict will be announced on February 28, when all the Round of 16 matches have already taken place.
Ramos, captain of the Spanish pro team Real Madrid, committed a hard foul that earned him the yellow card as a penalty in the 88th minute of the match, when his team won winning by two goals to one and minutes before, he was discovered asking the club’s managing board of directors to do it.
With this yellow card, Ramos would miss the second leg of the round of 16, but he would get ‘clean’ to the quarterfinals if his team is classified as it thought at the time of committing the infringement.At the end of the match in a mixed zone, the central defender declared he had searched for the foul warning and he later recanted his statements on his own Twitter social network account, so UEFA opened a process of investigation.
The sanction could be between the two or three parties without intervening in the European competition and the verdict will be announced on February 28, when all the Round of 16 matches have already taken place.
With goals of French Karim Benzema and Spanish Marco Asencio, the Real Madrid defeated Ajax on Wednesday by two goals to one and set the pace the qualifying for the second leg at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium on coming March 5th.
Sergio Ramos admitted he got a yellow card on purpose to avoid the threat of a suspension in later #UCL rounds ? pic.twitter.com/M6HhYuxlZm
— B/R Football (@brfootball) February 13, 2019
UEFA’s own rules say that when a player deliberately get’s a 2nd yellow card, he has to be suspended for 2 games. Sergio Ramos openly admitted that he has done this last night. If UEFA doesn’t suspend him for 2 games then this organization is finished.
— AFC Ajax ? (@TheEuropeanLad) February 14, 2019
