“They are extorting”, the position of the clubs before the FPF that forced Cusco FC to broadcast their match

On Sunday night, Cusco FC and Alianza Atlético were to play from 6:30 pm at the Garcilaso de la Vega. The teams went out onto the playing field, but the referee shortlist was not on the green. The game could not start.

“The referees have been called from the Federation,” said the delegate Johana Villacrez. “Let them broadcast the game, it’s the only thing they are asking for,” she added about the reasons, but said that she was not going to put that in the game record, as seen in the videos posted on social networks.

Finally, Cusco FC had to let the match be broadcast by 1190 Sports (by DTV and Best Cable signals). Thus, the match began about 40 minutes late for what was Cuzco’s 2-1 victory over the Sullanenses.

The first response that the FPF gave us was that the decision was made to delay the match because the guarantees for the start of the match were not given, since the TV broadcast is part of the requirements to give the initial whistle. What’s more, we were informed that the security of the Cusqueño team was forcing the cameramen to turn their cameras.

And so they endorsed it in the statement that they made public this Monday on their social networks. “The Cusco FC club delayed allowing entry to the Liga 1 Max cameras, for this reason, the FPF, in accordance with the regulations, ordered the match to be delayed due to the lack of guarantees on the part of the local team for the transmission of said meeting”, reads the document.

“The presence of referees has not been conditioned, it is the start of the event that has been delayed because for a match all the conditions must be met, one of them the transmission,” they tell us from FPF. And they explain it with article 132 of the League 1 regulations.

“The local club, through its security officer, is responsible for the organization, security, comfort, logistics, hygiene and public health of the sports event, and for the safety, well-being and tranquility of the visiting team and sports authorities,” it reads. in the said article. Then in its point 2 it says: “All issues related to match security, specifically that which guarantees that of fans, spectators, players, match officials, members of the media, leaders and representatives of sponsors will be the responsibility local club exclusive.

For this reason, Cusco FC was held responsible for not guaranteeing the normal development of the match, with which it was decided to delay until the issue of the transmission was resolved.

However, the clubs linked to the Consortium make it clear to us that there is no particular regulation that explains what happened in Cusco. “Nowhere in the statute does it establish that a walk over can be decreed for not letting in the person who is going to broadcast the game,” a lawyer for the clubs tells us.

When talking about article 132 that the FPF referred to us, the lawyer makes the clarification. “The interpretation that the FPF wants to give you is wrong. These articles are referred to the safety of the show. Nowhere does he talk about the entry of television cameras.”

In the part referring clearly to the TV transmission part, nothing is read regarding the fact that the football match can be conditioned if the match cannot be televised. For the Cusco FC lawyer Maxwell Callo was clear in his defense. “As has been made public, he ended up exercising the power of the one who leads the destinies of Peruvian football. Yes, here the exercise of power prevailed over legality, coherence and transparency, ”he told GOLPERU.

“It is illegal, so they are conditioning us to play under the terms of the FPF and its contractual relationship, which does not exist for us. They are destroying Peruvian soccer more and more,” Callo added, in relation to the fact that the Federation forced him to work with a channel with which he has no connection.

For this reason, the idea among the clubs that renewed their contract with the Consortium is that the FPF never wanted to negotiate in search of a solution to the issue of TV rights. “The coercion does not correspond, with this I think he ended up breaking every bridge that could remain standing,” a close friend of the clubs tells us.

And that can be interpreted from the last paragraph of the statement issued by the Federation. “The FPF reiterates that it will act according to the regulations to carry out the sanctions that are considered pertinent in strict compliance with the statute and national and international sports regulations,” they say.

This means that over the weekend what was experienced in Cusco can be repeated on the fields of Alianza, Melgar and Binacional, clubs linked to the Consortium that have to play at home. Cusco FC plays on the road and Cienciano rests.

“They are extorting. So who is going to want to be at the dialogue table ”, they tell us from another club. “The FPF never thought of a negotiation, it has always wanted to impose its conditions”; They tell us from a club in the provinces.

In addition, the clubs are exposed to the Consortium sanctioning them or denouncing them for breach of contract, since they have a link where it is established that Gol Perú will be the one that broadcasts the matches.

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