The management of FC Porto has decided to open an investigation into the alleged abuse of Argentine hockey player Carlos Nicolia, a Benfica player, in a game held on Wednesday at the pavilion of the Porto club, which was announced on Friday by the Portuguese roller hockey champion.
Those responsible for the blue and white emblem, who expressed their “commitment to the eradication of these phenomena in Portuguese sport”, will launch an investigation “to establish the facts and the identity of the alleged authors” of insults against the Benfica striker, 36 years old.
The Board of FC Porto, who won the match of the 13th round of the championship with a score of 3:0 and overtook Benfica in the lead of the competition, rejected “all verbal aggression, which, unfortunately, happens in various sports fields throughout the country.” “.
The position of the “dragons”, revealed on the official website, came a day after a source in the Office for the Prevention and Control of Violence in Sports said that the process of investigating the alleged abuse of Nicolia would be launched.
After Wednesday’s game, the Argentine player took to social media to denounce insults coming from part of the bench in the “blue and white” pavilion, who allegedly called Nicolia a “murderer”, blaming him for the death of his wife, who died before coming to Portugal from – for a long illness.
Benfica also criticized the alleged insults in a statement published on the official website, in which “it expresses its full solidarity with its player Nicolia, once again insulted, disrespected as a man, athlete and father.”