On the night of Wednesday (17), the Athletic received the Botafogo for the first game of the final eighties of the Copa do Brasil and achieved a spectacular turn to the cariocas, leaving the 90 minutes with the score of 3 to 2, after being losing 2 to 0 in the first half of the game.
Even at the end of the CAP leaving with victory, the climate behind the scenes after the initial 45 minutes was heavy. That's because in the post-game summary, referee Leandro Pedro Vuaden, reported that he was approached by Felipão, director of football at Athletico, to complain about a bid in the first half.
“We were approached in the tunnel of access to the changing rooms, by Luiz Felipe Scolari, the soccer coordinator of the commanding team, who was in front of the door of his team's locker room and uttered the following words to me, referee of the match: ‘Are you blind? Bastard, don't you see anything? Bastard! Faced with the words spoken, I inform you that I was offended", reported Vuaden.
The account frightened the world of the ball with the words spoken by Felipon. The moment in question that generated this complaint from the leader was an alleged penalty in Christian, right at the beginning of the match, where the referee even looked at the VAR, But you played it like it wasn't a foul.
