A UEFA penalty should not affect the women’s team

Last Thursday the women’s team of Barcelona achieved another milestone by qualifying for the final of Champions woman It discusses the third consecutive presence and the fourth in the last five years and where the Barcelona club will look for its second continental title. It will be on June 3 at the PSV stadium and whose rival will be known this afternoon, after the clash between Wolfsburg and Arsenal (3:30 pm), with a 2-2 first leg.

First of all, and as reported by MD on Friday, Barça will have the Champions license for the next edition of the tournament, since the Committee that grants licenses does not see any clear reason to deny the participation of Barça . I can say one more thing

The question that arises is: what happens if UEFA ends up punishing Barcelona Football Club? Will it affect women? Case of Negreira?

We should start with the scenario where the method is now and it has been collecting information since the end of last March. The key is how the designated inspectors finalize this information. Whether or not there are grounds for opening disciplinary proceedings on Barcelona.

In the case of opening a disciplinary procedure, it will lead us to see what decision the disciplinary body of UEFA. And if he chooses to exclude the Catalan team from the Champions League (he can only be reprimanded or fined), it will take us to the middle of June and coincide with June 12 as the date for the last registration in Champions League. We counted on Friday in MD than RFEF This gives a go-ahead to pre-registration that ends on May 19.

It is then, on the occasion of the specific registration, when they can apply this penalty based on article 4.2 of the Regulations of Champions League which reads as follows: “If, on the basis of all factual circumstances and information available to it, the UEFA concludes with its satisfaction that a club is directly and/or indirectly involved, since the implementation of section 3 of article 50 of the Laws of UEFAthat is, on April 27, 2007, in any activity aimed at fixing or influencing the outcome of a match at the national or international level, the UEFA shall declare said club ineligible to participate in the competition. Such ineligibility shall be effective for one football season only. In making your decision, the UEFA it may be based on a decision of a national or international sports body, of an arbitral tribunal or of a state court, but is not obliged to do so. The UEFA may refrain from declaring the club ineligible to participate in the competition if it is satisfied that the effect of a decision made in relation to the same factual circumstances by a national or international sports body, arbitration tribunal or state court is has already had the effect of preventing that club from participating in a UEFA club competition.”

A decision on the exception that, as we explained MDmust be very well argued because there is always TAS appeal and there are precedents where penalties have been overturned UEFA. We have already explained that the sensations of Barcelona They could not be more optimistic after the meeting Joan Laporta together Alexander Ceferin ten days ago today.

A disciplinary file against the Barça club could also affect Joan Laporta. Not in his capacity as the current president of Barcelonabut from his previous period as head of the club between 2003-2010 and that coincides with a period that affects the information he will collect UEFA about the case Negreira. Punishment that can range from a warning, a fine or even, and always to an extreme degree, a fine, disqualification from holding their position.

And within this uncertain future, according to sources consulted by MD, the group of women who already have a presence in the next edition of Champions League. First as the first in the Spanish Women’s League after winning the title yesterday Sunday, the eighth in her record, to which she can add if she once again proclaims herself as the champion of the best competition of Europe of clubs next June 3.