Was Inigo Martinez closed?
Opponent is protesting: Trouble for Super Trainer Flick and Barça
Opponent is protesting: Trouble for Super Trainer Flick and Barça
03/28/2025, 8:27 p.m.
The game of FC Barcelona against Osasuna is like bewitched. It will be canceled at the beginning of March because the team doctor of the Catalan dies surprisingly. Before the catch -up date, there is trouble for the start, then an injury and then the opponents also want the three points at the green table.
New trouble for FC Barcelona and super coach Hansi Flick after the sovereign 3-0 (2-0) in catch -up game against CA Osasuna. The three points already expensive due to the violation of Dani Olmo could be subsequently withdrawn from the Catalans. At least that’s what the football club from Pamplona wants.
Just a few hours after the defeat, which Osasuna left in 14th and six points over the relegation ranks, they took protest against the evaluation of the game at the Spanish Football Association RFEF, reports the Reuters news agency. The reason: Hansi Flick is said to have used a non-playable professional with Inigo Martinez.
The 33-year-old defense lawyer had deregistered the national team with a battered knee during the week and was not in the squad at the quarter-finals in Spain in the Nations League. That should now be doomed to Flick and Barcelona. Because Barcelona violated a FIFA regulation by using the defense lawyer, the opponent from Pamplona claimed and made protest.
What Osasuna Flick and Barcelona accuses
The relevant regulation can be found in Article 5 of Appendix I of FIFA regulations about the status and transfer of players, explained Osasuna in her statement. In this article 5 of Appendix I it is said that a player who canceled his national team for reasons of injury for which five were closed to the club for the end of the stop period, the club argued. The game took place beforehand.
Martinez was nominated on March 14, but had already been deleted again on March 17, without being traveled to the team at all. Barcelona-close pages on the Internet saw in particular the proof that this regulation does not apply here. Martinez completed the last of his 21 caps in November 2023.
Both clubs had resolved in advance without success against the setting on Thursday and thus a day before the usual end of the international break. The game was canceled at the beginning of March after the sudden death of Carles Minarro Garcia, the team doctor of Barcelona.
“That was not good. We paid a high price for the three points with the injury of Dani,” complained the former national coach Flick after the game about the injury to the former Leipzig player Olmo. It will very likely be in the upcoming games of the Champions League against Borussia Dortmund.
Barcelona is at the top of the table in the Spanish league after the victory in the catch -up game with a three -point lead over Real Madrid. The team of coach Flick has also reached the semi -finals of the Spanish Cup. There will be Atlético Madrid next Wednesday. In La Liga, Barça welcomes the Catalan neighbors from Girona on Sunday.