Five Real Madrid players punished for refusing to travel with team-mates

Five Real Madrid Castilla players have been fined for flying home from last weekend’s clash against Celta Viga II without permission.

Los Blancos’ second string side drew the Segunda Division B clash 1-1, with Vinicus Junior scoring and seeing red in the fixture.

Following the away clash, five players including Zinedine Zindane’s son, Luca, flew home instead of taking the team coach.

According to Marca, Zidane, Franchu, Alex Martin, Dani Gomez and Cristo bought tickets and chose to travel with their families over their team-mates.

Drama began before the fixture, when the players’ request to travel to Vigo by air was denied. The coach ride is six hours from Madrid and the players were not keen on spending that length of time on the road.