UEFA is given 48 more hours to decide on Osasuna

Club Atlético Osasuna will have to wait another 48 hours to know the UEFA report confirming or denying the Navarrese team’s participation in the next Conference League. After 7:00 pm today, the entity led by Luis Sabalza received an email from UEFA inspectors in which they asked the Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Committee of this body for a 48-hour postponement to release their report. Said postponement was granted.

Osasuna and its fans are waiting to find out if they can return to Europe 16 years after their last participation. In the event that this cannot be done due to a possible penalty, the place that gives the right to participate in this tournament will be occupied by Athletic, ranked eighth in the last League.

Uncertainty in Europe moved to the offices a few days ago. Osasuna finished seventh in the field, giving them a ticket to the Conference League, but last week UEFA’s alert came out for their involvement in match-fixing in 2014 and everything is up in the air. The situation, as experienced today, is still on hold pending UEFA’s own decision.

Osasuna has sent the relevant documentation to the two UEFA inspectors handling the matter to explain their point of view. The entity led by Aleksander Ceferin has opened a disciplinary investigation with the aim of admitting the rojillo club to the Conference for its involvement in a match-fixing with Betis a decade ago, a case in which there is a recent Court decision supreme The resolution of this particular matter has been delayed, so far, for two more days.

Athletic, meanwhile, attends this process as a mere spectator. Jon Berasategi, its general director, already explained a week ago when he was asked about Osasuna’s suspicions about the complaint of some entities: “I know. I sent it to the president through the press officer, who sent me a communication from the media and then we read Osasuna’s note. There is nothing, there is no truth.”