Over the weekend, some images went viral on social networks where you can appreciate the former Boca Juniors full-back, Hernán Grana, who currently plays for the All Boys club in Argentina, being the protagonist of an unfortunate incident during a children’s soccer match in which his son was playing. The winger invaded the playing field to try to rebuke the referee for his performance in the game, saying many things, insults and so on to the person in charge of dispensing justice in the match.
“Get paid well, give it!” was the first shout that a witness could capture on camera. who was present at the aforementioned match. “Give Gordó, get paid well!” and “He’s grabbing him by the shirt!” Grana continued and then prepared to enter the match field. After that he was kicked out of the club while several people tried to stop him so that everything would not escalate.
The referee spoke about everything that happened
Ernesto Suasnabar, referee on duty in the aforementioned match, took the floor and offered the details of everything that happened with Grana from his point of view: “First he yelled at me, raised his voice, and first I reported it to the delegate. He stood there and didn’t calm down. He yelled at me again and I kicked him out,” the judge said in a short interview with the Telenoche program on Channel 13.
“And when I kicked him out he got on the field, and well, when I forced him to be taken out, From the door of the club he followed me, insulting me, telling me everything. There was no physical aggression,” added the leader after the encounter he had with Grana.
During the interview, Suasnabar explained that this type of situation like the one he experienced with Grana, they usually happen and are more common than people believe in football in minor categories. “Sadly it is very common. More protests, verbal and physical attacks. Thank God there were no physical attacks. People are very violent. One prepares during the week how one is going to handle the day,” said the judge.
“The baby is harmed by the big ones. You talk to the boys and they understand you easily. The problem is the parents, the technicians and the delegates,” explained the judge, who has experience in leading this type of events for 24 years.
“People are very violent. You don’t expect a person like that to appear. It happened to me once when I had to stop the game and all the kids were crying because of the pressure they put on them. Boys become violent because of parental pressure. “If I hear a father who sends his son to hit another, I have to expel him,” his gaze concluded in the note.
Grana also gave his version of events from his point of view.
The current All Boys player used social networks to explain everything that happened. “I am going out to clarify something that happened yesterday on baby day where my son was playing against Racing where someone filmed me protesting to the referee in which it is clear that I am going to speak to him. I went to talk to him because he was letting 9-year-olds hit each other and not saying anything to them. So the only thing I wanted to tell him was for him to talk to them,” was the first part of his explanation.
“I take responsibility for my completely misplaced and excessive reaction, it is not right, especially coming from a professional like me.”, but I never wanted to hit him in the least. Yes, wanting to tell him not to let the babies hit each other. Those who know me know the kind of person I am and even more so with children. I apologize because it was not the way or the time to talk to the referee, mainly because of the children, but my only objective was to stop them from hitting each other anymore,” Grana continued.
“It makes me sad and angry that there are people who want to dirty my person, but I have a clear conscience.” What kind of person am I and what was shown in the video was not the truth of what happened. It is clear that I never want to attack anyone, but I am going to go to the last degree against those people who wanted to get me dirty. Because you can say and think whatever you want about the way I play but not about me personally. “I’m not going to allow them.”
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