The Asturian technician decides to answer to the statements of the ex French player

Luis Enrique answered to the controversial words of Petit

Luis Enrique answered to the controversial words of Petit

Published:28/09/2015 - 17:17h

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The trainer of the FC Barcelona, Luis Enrique, has retorted to the controversial statements of Petit, with the one who shared changing room in the Barcelona group does already more than a decade. The ex French footballer said that there was "a war between Catalans and Dutch"

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In statements carried out during the previous press conference to the meeting against the Bayer Leverkusen of this next Tuesday in the Camp Nou, Luis Enrique decided to answer of form something cutting to Petit, with the one who shared changing room does roughly fifteen years in the FC Barcelona and that recently had defined like "a war between Catalans and Dutch" to the environment that lived in the changing room of the Barcelona group then.

"I have not read it. I respect the opinion of all, but in that changing room reigned the fellowship and the good roll. It was a glorious changing room and inmejorable", went the elegant answer of Luis Enrique when they asked after him the subject. The Asturian did not refer , however, to the words of Petit on what he considered the "Catalan nationalism" that lived in Catalonia in that period.

The controversial words of Petit

In an interview conceded to the 'BBC', Petit spoke on his past in the FC Barcelona and smashed into the club and against the Catalan nationalism, to the cual califició of "almost racism". Besides, the exfutbolista arrepintió to go to the Barça in place of to the Manchester United after his exit of the Arsenal. "Perhaps I had to have me gone to the Manchester United and play in Old Trafford with Roy Keane, Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs, David Beckham and company. An error on my part", affirmed.

The French spoke of a war inside the changing room blaugrana between Dutch and Catalan when it arrived to the club: "I Arrived in a bad moment, there was a war in the changing room between the Dutch and the Catalans. And on there was a technician (Serra Ferrer) that did not have sufficient charisma to impose . The politics and the naconalismo that breathed in the changing room was too for me. I was very happy to the Barça, but I only wanted to concentrate me in the football. Each day treating of lidiar with subjects that purportedly did not correspond me".

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