No Barca complaint against Jose - Catalan giants want to 'forget' Camp Nou fall-out
Posted Tuesday, August 23, 2011 by skysports.com
Mourinho: Barcelona want to 'forget' his bad behaviour
Barcelona have said that they will not lodge an official complaint against Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho following his altercation with Tito Vilanova at Camp Nou last week.
The Portuguese was caught on television cameras to poke his finger into the eye of the Barca assistant coach in the closing stages of the Spanish Supercopa second leg tie between the two teams.
The game ended 3-2 to Pep Guardiola's side, who won the two-legged affair 5-4 on aggregate, but the talking point was Mourinho's ungentlemanly conduct.
However, Blaugrana president Sandro Rosell says that they will not pursue this matter anymore and will not file a complaint against Mourinho.
Let's forget
"There are several reasons, the main one is that we need to stop this atmosphere of extreme tension," explained Rosell to reporters in Spain.
"There was a consensus among the technical staff and (sporting director Andoni) Zubizarreta not to report the actions of Mourinho.
"To report Mourinho could have affected the team's preparation (for Friday's Uefa Super Cup against Porto) and it was Tito Vilanova who asked us to forget the matter.
"The federation and the committees, if they want, must act off their own initiative. Barca will not ask them. What we have to do is forget this business."
National team under threat
The brawl at Camp Nou follows on from last season's Clasico clashes between Barcelona and Madrid in La Liga, the Copa del Rey and the UEFA Champions League.
And Santiago Cazorla, who joined Malaga from Villarreal this summer, believes that the evident tension between the two sets of players could threaten the harmony in the Spain national team.
"The situation in the national squad is tense," said Cazorla in La Nueva Espana newspaper. "However much we want to avoid it, these cup competitions have an influence on relations."
With the bulk of the Spanish national team comprised of players from Madrid and Barca, Cazorla, who won Euro 2008 with La Furia Roja, is worried that this could hamper them from winning next summer's European Championship.
"The atmosphere is still very good (in the national team but) if this kind of problem continues, then it could have an influence and that could end up being very damaging," he said.
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