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Real Madrid announced they started disciplinary proceedings against their players Federico Valverde, current team captain, and Aurélien Tchouameni after incidents during training session.
Federico Valverde also made an official statement on social media. The #RealMadrid midfielder admitted frustration and tension during training led to arguments with his teammate, but denied any physical fight between the players.
He's the statement, translated to English:
“Yesterday I had an incident with a teammate as a result of a play during training, where the fatigue from competition and frustration make everything feel bigger.
In a normal locker room, these things can happen and are resolved among ourselves without becoming public. Obviously, there’s someone behind all this who rushed to spread the story, combined with a season without titles where Madrid is always under the spotlight and everything gets magnified.
Today we had another disagreement. During the discussion, I accidentally hit a table, causing myself a small cut on my forehead that required a routine hospital visit.
At no point did my teammate hit me, nor did I hit him, although I understand that for many of you it’s easier to believe we beat each other up or that it was intentional, but that did not happen.
I feel that my anger about the situation, my frustration at seeing some of us reaching the end of the season running on our last strength and emotionally exhausted, pushed me to the limit of arguing with a teammate.
I’m sorry. I’m truly sorry because this situation hurts me, and the moment we are going through hurts me. Madrid is one of the most important things in my life and I can’t be indifferent. The result is an accumulation of things that ended in a meaningless fight, damaging my image and leaving room for people to invent, slander, and exaggerate an accident. I have no doubt that any friction we may have outside the pitch disappears once inside the stadium, and if I have to defend him there, I’ll be the first to do so.
I wasn’t going to speak until the end of the season. We were eliminated from the Champions League and I kept my anger and resentment to myself. We’ve wasted another year and I wasn’t here to make social media posts when the only face I needed to show was on the field, and I feel I did that. That’s why it pains and saddens me the most to go through this situation, which prevents me from playing the next match due to medical decisions, because I have always gone until the very end, through every consequence, and it hurts me more than anyone not to be able to do so. I am at the disposal of the club and my teammates to cooperate with any decision they consider necessary.
Thank you.”
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