Barça shun Marca awards due to Tebas being given Fair Play prize
They didn't send any representatives to the event due to their ongoing feud with LFP chief
Barcelona spokesman Josep Vives explained on Monday evening the reasons the club did not send any representatives to the Marca awards night, where Luis Suarez and Jennifer Hermosa were due to collect their top scorer trophies.
“On Friday, the club had the intention of sending a representative to the gala, but after receiving knowledge that they were going to give a Fair Play award to Javier Tebas, obviously we couldn’t go,” Vives said, adding it was “unacceptable” to give the prize to the LFP president.
Barça’s relationship with Tebas has deteriorated since his comments about the club’s players following the Catalan side’s 3-2 win at Valencia, when a bottle was thrown at them as they celebrated their winning goal at Mestalla.
Luis Suarez and Neymar ended up on the floor after objects were thrown from the crowd.
"It looked like a game of ten-pin bowling," Tebas said in an interview with Sportyou. "Perhaps they [fell because they] felt the water.
"We have all seen these images and there are millions of children who are watching. If my children were to see my feigning something, I would feel embarrassed when I went to see them later.”
FC Barcelona, after those quotes from the La Liga chief, decided to break off relations with him and took the matter to the Spanish Court of Administration.
