Theirs is to create controversy and get several out of their boxes. In that, few or no one beats David Faitelson, the ESPN journalist who has fallen out with “everyone” on social media and his controversial view of the expulsion to Sebastián Jurado in Cruz Azul’s game against Toluca earned him the criticism of former player Fausto Pinto.
Despite the fact that the general opinion of his communicator colleagues describes it as “mistake” and even “steal” the decision of the referee Fernando Hernándezwho after reviewing in the VAR a jump by the goalkeeper of the Machine decided to expel him and score the penalty that gave the victory to the Red Devils, David Faitelson said it was “a clear aggression” by Juradodespite the fact that the footballer never intended to hit his rival in the natural movement of stepping on the ground.
Faced with this assertion, the former soccer player Fausto Pintowho was part of the Mexican National Team in the 2007 Copa América and who at the club level was with Pachuca and Cruz Azul -among others-, exhibited Faitelson saying: “Again showing that you never played football”defending that the Jurado thing was unintentional and that the video arbitration affected the Cementeros.
Again proving that you never played football dear David
– Fausto Pinto (@ fausto_pinto2) August 14, 2022
And it is that the communicator, in a previous tweet, assured that the movement of Sebastián Jurado’s leg in the fall was “unnatural” to hit the Toluca soccer player, Haret Ortega: “I have seen the play 18 times and Sebastián Jurado extends his leg as he falls. There is an unnatural movement within his fall. Impossible to ensure that it was not an attack“.
Characters like Christian Martinoli, Gerardo Velázquez de León and David Medrano accused that “VAR is destroying the game” for his apparent obsession with looking for even the smallest detail that is not punishable, in addition to the ineptitude of the referees, who have become “screen judges”, as Felipe Ramos Rizo, an ESPN refereeing analyst, argued at the time.
In the same TUDN broadcast they said that they thought it was “a mockery” and “a disaster” that this play be reviewed because it was a natural action of the game, that in slow motion and taking a photograph it would seem like a brazen aggression, but that the flow of the action was never punishable.
Cruz Azul appeals expulsion of jury
The Disciplinary Commission announced this Monday that Cruz Azul asked him to investigate the expulsion of Sebastián Jurado in the game against Toluca, with the aim that the sanction be reversed and that the goalkeeper can play the next day with the Celestes, who will receive Xolos at the Azteca Stadium on Wednesday.