Pep Guardiola, Bayern Munich’s Head Coach, has been queried by the Union of European Football Associations, UEFA, over wearing a t-shirt to a news conference before Tuesday, April 21, 2015 Champions League victory over Porto.
The conference was held over Argentine sports reporter, Jorge Lopez, popularly known as “Topo” was killed in Guarulhos, Sao Paulo in a road accident during last year’s tournament.
Guardiola wore a t-shirt with the slogan ‘#JusticiaParaTopo’ ahead of Bayern’s 6-1 quarter-final, second leg win and was charged on Wednesday by European soccer’s governing body for an “incident of non-sporting nature”.
It was initially reported that Lopez was killed after his taxi was hit by a stolen car fleeing police, but suspicions have since been raised about the accident and there has been a campaign to investigate his death.
Porto boss Julian Lopetegui was also charged in the wake of their 7-4 aggregate defeat for being dismissed from the bench.
Both cases will be dealt with by UEFA’s disciplinary body on Thursday, May 21, 2015.
