Florentino Perez will not be present at the Camp Nou on Sunday night during El Clasico, reporters have reported Sport.es. It is known that before the derby with Barcelona, ​​both presidents of the club met and had lunch together.

The president of “Real” Florentino Perez will not be present at the big derby with “Barcelona” – Sport.es sources

A famous pre-El Clasico tradition will be broken by Sunday night’s match, at least according to Sport.es, a Catalan daily close to the LaLiga leaders.

Florentino Perez’s refusal to go to Camp Nou for El Clasico comes in the context of the recent cooling of relations between the two great rivals.

After Barcelona is involved in the “Negreira” scandal (the Catalan group is accused of corruption in a continuous form after the alleged transfer of 1.4 million euros to the accounts of a former referee, a character who was for a long time the vice president of the technical Committee of Referees from Spain), the dialogue with Madrid “Real” was “frozen”.

According to the cited source, Catalan officials did not expect such a decision by Peres.

Catalan journalists are talking about the desire of Florentino Perez not to inflame the mood with his presence at Camp Nou during Sunday’s match.

Although relations have cooled significantly recently, Barcelona and Real Madrid remain allies in the fight against UEFA. The two big Spanish teams want to create the Super League, a competition that will rival the Champions League.

Barcelona v Real Madrid will take place on Sunday at 22:00 at Camp Nou live on Digisport, Orange Sport and Prima Sport.

This will be El Clasico with number 253. “Galacticos” have 101 victories, the Catalans won 99 times, 52 disputes ended in a draw.

At the moment, “Barcelona” occupies the first place in La Liga, breaking away from the rival from Madrid by 9 points.