Eder Sarabia talked about playing his team, the Elche, after the DANA which devastated part of the Valencian Community. The coach complained that the League made them play their game, which has not been suspended since his absence. The Alicante team won in Eibar, but the coach was happy and expressed his opinion against the decision of the competition. Javier Tebas do not suspend your match. “It’s really a shame. It’s sad that we had to play.”he pointed out.
After the DANA, which left more than 200 dead and 1,900 missing in the province of Valencia, the Generalitat banned all competition throughout the community. For this reason, the matches were suspended. Valencia, Villarreal, Levante, Eldense And Castellón. Not the one from Elche, who played at Eibar.
The franjiverde team won 0-2 in Ipurúa, in the match played on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. But at the end of the game, Eder Sarabia, The Elche coach exploded. The coach did not understand that they had been brought to play while all of Spain, but especially the affected Valencian Community, was dedicated to the victims of the floods that occurred in several Valencian municipalities.
So, when asked about the fact that they had to travel to Eibar to play, a few days after everything that happened in Valencia, Sarabia was clear. “It’s absolutely a shame.”he pointed out. Furthermore, he described as “sad” the fact of having had to play in Ipurúa, given the circumstances currently surrounding the Valencian Community.
“We are from the Community, which What your body asks of you is to be there, to encourage. “I don’t know if they need more staff, better organized ones,” added the technician, who insisted that “something extremely serious is happening in the region that we are seeing from close”.
What Eder Sarabia complains about
The coach’s words Elche They are not the only ones to oppose Tebas’ decision that the League continues its path and does not stop, despite the misfortune that occurred this week and which cost the lives of more than 200 people. Like Sarabia, coaches like Simeone, Flick, Garcia Plaza either Vicente Moreno. The latter, from Masanasa, one of the affected municipalities, was particularly hard.
The president of the championship thinks that “The best message is don’t stop and be on the front line”, as he declared. In this way, with a more than surreal message, Javier Tebas resisted criticism for not having suspended the whole day both in First and Second. Meanwhile, thousands of people are in the mud, collaborating in the cleanup and search and rescue efforts for hundreds of missing people, on what is truly the front line of battle.
“We think that in the terrible situation we are experiencing in Spain, the best message is not to stop, except in the affected areas. The best message is to be on the front line in our work, like all workers in the rest of the sectors, giving visibility, generating resources and explaining to the world that we must be all hands on deck to move forward.” Tebas said in a social media post.
