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Real Madrid
Made his first LaLiga Santander start against Cadiz
Blanco against Cadiz.Ramón NavarroES
J. L. CALDERÓN
The same ground that witnessed
Robinho s incredible show on his LaLiga Santander debut with Real Madrid, was also the stage for the emergence of a Los Blancos prodigy,
Antonio Blanco.
Zinedine Zidane gave the 20-year-old his first ever start with the
Real Madrid first team at the Estadio Ramon de Carranza and the youngster paid his coach s confidence back.
Fede Valverde will be sidelined for more than 10 days, while
Toni Kroos and Luka Modric are not fully fit, but Zidane is aware that he can count on Blanco in this last stretch of the season.
LaLiga said in a statement on Friday: “LaLiga has communicated to the clubs involved and the corresponding authorities the result of the investigations carried out to resolve what happened between Cadiz CF and Valencia CF players.
“After analysis it is concluded that proof has not been found in any of the means available in LaLiga that the player Juan Torres Ruiz (Juan Cala) insulted Mouctar Diakhaby in the terms denounced.
“All available television and digital archives, audios of the match, broadcast images and what was released on different social networks have been examined.
“A specialist company was also hired to perform a lip reading analysis of the conversations of the players Juan Torres Ruiz and Mouctar Diakhaby.
“I never said black s . I didn’t say it to him and that’s clear,” Cala told reporters, as quoted on Spanish media outlet AS.
“Everything he says is false. If there is any Cadiz player who has said that I was going to apologise, I’ll quit football. This is a media lynching.”
Cala continued in the virtual press conference: “Either he made it up or he understood something else when I said ‘leave me alone’.
“The best thing would have been to get me and (Diakhaby) together in a room to explain what happened. Instead, it’s been a circus. I was judged before the game was over.
VALENCIA have told Cadiz defender Juan Cala “we don’t believe you,” after the player denied allegations he racially abused Valencia’s Mouctar Diakhaby during their La Liga match on Sunday.
The Valencia team walked off the field during the 2-1 defeat at the Estadio Ramon de Carranza after defender Diakhaby claimed to have been racially insulted by Cala.
Valencia returned to complete the match, but without Diakhaby, who was substituted. The club stressed the players had not been asked to continue and only did so after being informed by the referee of potential sanctions.
Following the match, Valencia president Anil Murthy issued a strong statement calling on Spain’s footballing authorities to do more to tackle racism.