Abelardo Fernandezhe Pitoutook it this Sunday with a journalist from Cartagena at a press conference after his team’s defeat in the match against Oviedo contested in the Carlos Tartière (1-0). The coach of Gijon spoke of a disparity in media questions based on results, to which Juan Pedro Hurtadoadvertiser Regional wave of Murciaasked him to listen to his broadcast of the accident the coach was referring to.
“I don’t even want to listen to the show… How boring,” Pitu replied after saying that the journalist’s account of Cartagena’s victory over the Eldense It had to be different. “Oviedo has a budget 100,000 times bigger than Cartagena, but hey, if you don’t see it that way, I don’t care,” he said at first.
Asked by the Murcian journalist: “Did Cartagena play better than other times?”, Abelardo continued: “They played the game they had to play. Surely if we win or draw, you will change my questions.” “Not at all,” the narrator denies, to which the Asturian insists: “I don’t know these press conferences, it always happens the same way…”
“The match against Eldense that we won was the worst game we’ve ever played. You didn’t say it, the questions were different. I’m not going to get into a debate with you, I don’t feel like it. Are there any other questions?” Abelardo tells him, to which he replies: “I’ve travelled many kilometres (from Cartagena to Oviedo)”, before asking his last question: “Do you think that despite the team’s loss today “Is on the way to achieving the objectives: winning, scoring points…?”
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“The objective of Cartagena, by the budget and by everything, is to remain in Second division. I think we deserve more points than we have, but that’s football. The press conferences change depending on the result and that’s football,” he insisted. “If you want, I’ll give you the show so you can see that’s not the case,” the journalist reminded him. That’s when Abelardo answered badly.
“For God’s sake, I don’t even want to listen to you on the show. No thanks. How boring…”, the coach concluded. The appearance ended with this tense moment and Abelardo left the press room of the Oviedo stadium after this encounter with a journalist, which is neither the first nor the second in his career as a coach.
