Barcelona has taken the bold step of officially filing a complaint against Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez.
For months, the ongoing legal fallout surrounding historical refereeing reports has been weaponized as a PR battleground, with both sides trading sharp public jabs regarding the integrity of past domestic honors.
While the Catalan hierarchy previously focused on drafting direct civil actions to protect their badge, the strategy has significantly expanded to demand a unified, sweeping intervention from the sport’s highest domestic regulators.
In a massive administrative escalation, Barcelona officially launches a complaint against the Real Madrid president to force an institutional reckoning.
Acting on behalf of the club’s board of directors, Barcelona vice president Rafael Yuste formally submitted a scathing, three-pronged demand to La Liga president Javier Tebas, Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) chief Rafael Louzán, and Technical Committee of Referees (CTA) head Francisco Soto, as per the official Barcelona statement.
The emergency paperwork directly targets Florentino Pérez following explosive public appearances made by the Madrid chief on May 12 and 13.
During those media engagements, Pérez openly accused the Catalan side of systemic corruption and “stealing” domestic league crowns, a narrative that Barcelona strictly condemns as entirely fabricated, highly defamatory, and explicitly calculated to warp public perception.
By bringing the dispute directly to the sport’s central organizers, the Blaugrana are pressuring Spanish football’s governing trio to aggressively penalize the Santiago Bernabéu chief.
Barcelona’s legal documentation stresses that the repeated accusations do not merely tarnish their individual honor; they fundamentally compromise the credibility, global prestige, and transparency of the entire First Division league competition and its refereeing framework.
With the board fully prepared to transition their defense into full-scale criminal proceedings for slander if a total retraction isn’t issued, the ball is now firmly in the court of La Liga, the RFEF, and the CTA to determine how heavily they will sanction the capital club’s leader.
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