After winning the Queen’s Cup, on the grass of La Romareda (Zaragoza), the Barça footballers received the champions’ medals this Saturday at the hands of their own coaching staff. “It’s a joke? “Is this a joke?” Salma Paralluelo asked, laughing, to one of the delegates while he gave her the decoration. The Barça forward had already experienced an unpleasant episode in January of last year in Mérida in the final of the Spanish Super Cup, when no one gave them the medals. Then, the Barça footballers had to go to a table to collect them in an image with an enormous symbolic load due to the comparison with what had happened in the men’s final, in which the then head of the Royal Spanish Football Federation He hung them around the necks of the footballers.
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Sandra Paños, Ona Batlle, Lucy Bronze, Ingrid Engen, Irene Paredes, Patri Guijarro, Aitana Bonmatí, Clàudia Pina, Caroline Graham Hansen, Salma Paralluelo and Mariona Caldentey
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Elene Lete, Iris Arnaiz, Manuela Vanegas, Nahia Aparicio, Alejandra Bernabé, Emma Ramírez, Andreia Jacinto, Sanni Franssi, Nerea Eizagirre, Synne Jensen and Amaiur Sarriegi
Goals 1-0 min. 5: Ona Batlle. 2-0 min. 12: Salma Paralluelo. 3-0 min. 18: Caroline Graham Hansen. 4-0 min. 25: Caroline Graham Hansen. 5-0 min. 33: Ona Batlle. 6-0 min. 47: Mariona Caldentey. 7-0 min. 51: Claudia Pina. 8-0 min. 58: Mariona Caldentey.
Referee María Eugenia Gil Soriano
Today’s situation was due to the RFEF protocol. The organization argues that this establishes that the medals are awarded to the delegate and the Cup is given to the captain of the winning club, in this case Alexia Putellas, who received the trophy from Queen Letizia. “I guess it’s the protocol, that it goes like this everywhere, and that’s it,” Salma said later in the mixed zone, where she also wished that the regulations would change.
After the controversy last year in Mérida in the Super Cup, a different competition but also organized by the federation, it published a statement to try to clarify the situation: “In accordance with the RFEF award protocols, and taking into account both the high number of institutional representation, as well as the infrastructure for access to the box from the stadium lawn, the protocol department decided to activate the delivery ceremony in the box in the same way that it is carried out in the Copa del Rey: delivery of the Cup to the captain of the champion team and presentation of medals to the winning team on the grass/locker room.”
Mariona Caldentey, chosen best player of the match after scoring two goals and giving two assists, was also surprised this Saturday by the RFEF procedure. “In Mérida we picked them up and put them on ourselves, and today Marçal, our delegate, gave them to us. I don’t know how it was done last year, but we laughed a little,” he said at the press conference. Later, in the mixed zone, when they told her that it was a matter of protocol, she added: “They were just telling me that in the men’s Copa del Rey the protocol is the same. “This is how it is organized, I don’t know what to tell you.”
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