The Portuguese Professional Football League (LPFP) and Sporting de Braga today repudiated, in press releases, the aggression against a photojournalist.
The Portuguese Professional Football League (LPFP) and Sporting de Braga today repudiated, in press releases, the aggression against a photojournalist, after the match, in Braga, between Braga and Arouca, for the 21st round of the I Liga.
According to the newspaper O Jogo, the photojournalist Gonçalo Delgado was hit with a headbutt by a Sporting de Braga fan in one of the elevators of the Estádio Municipal de Braga. The newspaper adds that the aggressor fled the scene, but that a complaint was filed against him with the PSP.
“Liga Portugal presents a word of solidarity to the photojournalist Gonçalo Delgado, who was at the service of O JOGO at Estádio Municipal de Braga, repudiating this and any verbal or physical aggression against elements of the media, which occur in the stadiums or in the vicinity of the same”, can be read in the League’s communiqué.
This body also appeals to supporters so that “situations like those that happened today at Estádio Municipal de Braga, and a week ago at Estádio de Alvalade, with two teams from CMTV, do not happen again, showing, as always, total availability to , together with the authorities, find mechanisms to eradicate any type of violent behavior in Portuguese stadiums”.
Sporting de Braga also condemned the attack on the photojournalist after the match against Arouca – Arsenal’s 2-0 victory – and showed itself “totally available to collaborate with the authorities” for the quick identification of the aggressor.
“SC Braga repudiates any and all acts of violence and, therefore, censures the behavior verified in an elevator at Estádio Municipal de Braga after the match against FC Arouca, resulting from an altercation between two individuals. This behavior becomes particularly serious when the offended person is someone duly accredited to carry out their professional duties”, write the ‘arsenalists’ in their note.
The club from Braga said it had already expressed “directly its support and solidarity with the offended person”, adding that it had also taken “diligences to determine responsibilities”.
