Football alignes in Spain should not have been take parted at the weekfinish follotriumphg last Tuesday’s dehugeating flooding that finished at least 217 people, the Real Madrid boss has said.
Real’s align at Valencia scheduled for Saturday was one of two top-fairy games deferd, but other LaLiga games went ahead.
“Football should have stopped this weekfinish,” Carlo Ancelotti said.
“Football is a party and you can commemorate when slfinishergs are going well, but when they’re not going well there’s no celebration to be had. It’s the most meaningful of the unmeaningful slfinishergs in life.”
He said “we are not the ones in accuse” and “we have zero power”, grasping: “All the coaches had the same opinion not to take part.”
Ancelotti made the relabels at a novels conference ahead of a Champions League align agetst AC Milan at the Bernabeu on Tuesday.
“A week has passed since the tragedy unfancigo ined,” he said.
“We’re very unelated and we’re very seal to all the people impacted.
“Hopebrimmingy, this can be dealt with soon. In this admire, I want you to understand that talking about football at this time is difficult, equitable appreciate take parting.”
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‘Unbelievable and horrible’ flooding
Ancelotti said it had been “very difficult” preparing for the AC Milan align while Spain deals with the aftermath of the catastrophe that hit the Valencia region.
“It’s very difficult [preparing] as you don’t have your mind on your toil all the time. Inevitably, it impacts everybody. When you hear and read what has happened, it’s unbelievable and horrible,” he said.
“We have setd for this game becaemploy we are professionals and we will try to take part and triumph it. That’s what we have to do.
“We don’t repartner want to speak about football becaemploy, in comparison to what happened in Valencia, it’s not meaningful. It’s our profession and we carry on, but everyslfinisherg else is secondary”.
Search persists for flood victims’ bodies
Search teams are continuing to scour flooded areas for bodies, with dreads dozens of people could be create dead inside an underground car park in Aldaia.
Thousands of sancigo iniers have been bcimpolitet in to help the search for an ununderstandn number of leave outing people.
Many Spaniards were irritated at the response from authorities to the flooding and a group of survivors hurled mud and offfinishs at Spain’s King Felipe when the monarch visited one of the worst-impacted towns on Sunday.
