A few minutes after the match between Real and Villarreal on Saturday, Federico Valverde waited for Alex Baena in the Bernabéu car park before punching him. The Villarreal midfielder would have previously mocked the problems encountered by Valverde’s partner during her pregnancy.
He waited for him in the parking lot of his team’s bus. Before punching him in the face. According to the account of several Spanish media, including AS et BrandFederico Valverde hit Alex Baena after Real Madrid’s La Liga matchday 28 encounter with Villarreal on Saturday (2-3).
The Uruguayan international (24) had prepared his move. Half an hour after the final whistle, he waited for the Spanish midfielder (21), who was staring at his phone as he left the stadium and was visibly surprised to see Valverde appear in front of him . The latter then hit him on the cheekbone. “Tell me now what you told me about my son,” Valverde reportedly said.
According to witnesses at the scene, the altercation would not have gone further between the player of Real and that of Villarreal, who was filmed a few minutes later with the cheekbone a little swollen. So how to justify this stroke of blood from Valverde, not used to this kind of escapades? Contacted by Marca, the midfielder’s entourage confirmed the attack, while giving the beginning of an explanation.
An abject reference to Valverde’s baby?
It all started on January 19 during a King’s Cup match between Villarreal and Real (2-3). That evening, after a foul, Baena would suddenly approach Valverde, miming tears and saying to him: “Cry now that your son is not going to be born.” Some media report that he said more or less the same thing on Saturday. An abject reference to the problems faced by Mina Bonino, Valverde’s partner, during her second pregnancy.
In January, she confided publicly in her difficulties, before bringing reassuring news on her social networks. “For a month, we prepared for the worst. And after crying for a month, we received unexpected news: the baby is fine. Everything is normal. We haven’t digested this news yet, it’s been a month very difficult and it’s a new beginning. Thank you”, she wrote.
Baena would therefore have attacked Valverde on this subject, which the Villarreal player denied in the evening in an Instagram post: “Very happy with the team’s impressive victory at Santiago Bernabéu, but at the same time very sad about the aggression that I suffered after the game and surprised by what people say about me. It’s totally false.” According to AS, Villarreal have a video of Valverde’s punch, which was overheard by the police present at the scene.