Betis and Seville shake hands for the sake of the derby

Real Betis Balompié and Sevilla Fútbol Club have reached institutional peace after several months of conflict due to the breakdown of relations by the Nervión Club on account of the complaint filed by the Verdiblancos by the flag displayed in the derby of the first round by several of the Sevilist players who motivated a sanction of a suspension match. Now Ángel Haro, Heliopolitan president, and José María del Nido Carrasco, Máximo Mandatario Nervionense, have issued through their official channels of their clubs a message of understanding and restoration of institutional relations days before this Sunday’s derby at the Benito Villamarín stadium, which arrived with the controversy of the presence or not of those responsible for Sevillists in the box. In this way, of the Carrasco nest will be on Sunday with its directors at Villamarín.

In this sense, Haro and the Carrasco nest respond to the impulses carried by personalities such as the mayor of Seville, José Luis Sanz, and the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Rafael Louzán, who have worked for the understanding of both entities seeking peace.

«Yesterday we study the relevant communication from protocol but apart from this yesterday we talked about the president of Sevilla, José María, and I need to promote a stable and convenient institutional framework for the two institutions. I think that apart from rivalry we have to have and that there will always be within the field of play outside we have to have a climate of concord, honesty, sincerity and for this it is very important communication and dialogue for the sake to solve any problem or conflict that may arise between the institutions, in this case between Sevilla and Betis. Rivalry there must be but outside that rivalry, there are even areas where we can coincide and have common interests such as in LaLig Haro.

While, Of the Carrasco nest He said that «Sevilla FC has accepted the invitation of Real Betis Balompié and will go to the Benito Villamarín box on Sunday. There have been contacts between both presidents and we have understood the need to establish a framework that must govern the relationship between both institutions and that framework must be with fluid communication, honest relationship and that the derbies are played on the field of play, avoiding both institutions the realization of improper behaviors. This framework is for the present and for the future and is basically to play derbis on the pitch, with fluid communication, avoiding inadmissible behaviors, even in those matters that benefit both Real Betis and Sevilla FC, or in any type of institution or any type of struggle for situations that can benefit both and even work hand in hand. Both Real Betis and Sevilla FC have understood the responsibility of the positions we have, the responsibility of the important institutions in a dual city such as Seville and the importance of both clubs for this city and we have seen the need to establish this framework that must govern our relations in the present and in the future, which as I have already said must be based on honest, fluid relationships and let them play them in the field.