Last update 8 March, 2023 by Alberto Llopis
The punch of Jesús Gil to the manager of Compostela It was one of the most embarrassing moments experienced in Spanish football.
He 8 March 1996, Spanish football lived more aware of the offices than of the pitches. In another meeting of the presidents of the Professional Football League, then president of Atletico Madrid, Jesus Gil and Gil, and the Manager of Compostela, José Gonzalez Fidalgo and also the president of Compostela, José María Caneda, they staged an incident that went around the world.
The punch of Jesús Gil that went around the world.
an alleged insult Jose Maria Caneda to the voters of Marbella (then headed by Gil) led the athletic president to react throwing a punch at José María Fidalgo manager of the Compostela club who got into the middle of the fight.
with Caneda, President of Compostela, Also starring put, the three players in the raphe rifi action continued with a handful of insults and lamentable image for all Spanish football. As they say on many occasions, better image, in this case a video, a thousand words to explain what happened. A moment that went down in history as embarrassing.