According to Mehr News Agency, Khosro Heydari, the coach of Esteghlal football team, in an interview with the club’s official media, said about the events that happened on the part of the Pikan team’s bench at the end of the match against Esteghlal: Unfortunately, the entire Pekan team’s bench protested the referee during the game, but According to the television images, our team did not object to the referee. In a scene that I didn’t even think about, Mr. Hosseini insulted our bench and said inappropriate words to “Roi Mata”, which I am ashamed to say, but the video of it was published everywhere. Mr. Hosseini, you don’t know Portuguese, but I know Farsi and I heard your ugly words to Mata. He was disrespectful. It is better to talk about football because during the game, Pikan team did not have any special situation except for one situation.
He added: “We are happy that we have won the fourth consecutive victory and we have won powerfully, thank God.” We try to talk on the field and we see our share in failure. We even tried not to go overboard in this game and Sapinto himself was very calm. It’s really unfair that every losing team attacks our bench. The same game played against Pikan Dariri was effective in the result. Did we disrespect the referee or Mr. Hosseini during the game? The federation should deal with these things. I have respect for Pekan Club, in which I have played, but there should be a review of the technical behavior of this team. I hope we will not see these cases again. In the previous game against Mes, we saw that someone like Jimmy Jump came and hit our coach’s chest. These things are ugly and we should increase the capacity of losing in ourselves.
Khosro Heydari expressed surprise at Ricardo Sapinto’s disqualification by the Football Federation’s disciplinary committee and said: “In the match with Mes, a person who I really thought was Jimmy Jump attacked Sapinto and punched him in the chest.” Then Sapinto was fired! At the same time, Esteghlal fans were cheering for Sapinto. He also went to them and expressed his feelings with them. He then went to the dressing room where he was attacked again according to the available videos. The truth is that neither Sapinto nor his assistants have said any ugly or rude words to the opposing team during any match and they always insist on respecting and preserving the sanctity of the opposing team’s bench. Sapinto’s suspension because of the incident with Mes is unbelievable and there is no logical reason behind it. I must also say that as a small member of the Esteghlal school, I will never allow anyone to insult the opponent team from the bench of the Esteghlal team, God forbid.
