The Administrative Litigation Court number 4 of Madrid has estimated the player’s resource Sergio Canales against the four-match ban he received last season, when he played for Betis, for saying his dismissal against the Cádiz in the League it is prepared by the referee Antonio Mateu Lahoz.
Authorized by the disciplinary bodies of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF). Channels with 4 matches and a fine of 601 euros in March of this year after saying, at the end of the match with Valladolidon February 18, which was the former referee Antonio Mateu Lahoz had sent him off premeditatedly to crash against Cádiz played in October.
The sentence to which EFE had access, understood that the principles of typicality, guilt and presumption of innocence of Sergio Canalesdriven by an error of expression and interpretation in the player’s statements.
After this decision, Channels is able to compete with his current club, Rayados de Monterrey from Mexicoin the next Clausura 2024 championship without any type of penalty.
The player went to the ordinary courts after his appeals were not considered and got a precautionary suspension of his punishment when he had already served one of the penalty matches.
Channels He maintained that his behavior “always with the referees on and off the field has been exemplary, showing them the highest respect throughout my professional career.”
“This has been the case since I debuted in 2008 and this is still the case today in the Mexican league. That’s why I’m happy that justice has been done. I’ve always had a very clear conscience because I know that nothing has been done mistake in treating the arbitration panel. If I did it, I apologize immediately,” he said.
In statements sent to EFECanales thanked the Real Betis Balompiéto his agency Best Of You and to Laffer Abogados “who fought” for him “to the last consequences.”
Approved by the Competition Committee Channels on March 29, for some statement he made at the end of the match on the 22nd, against the Valladolid, on February 18, when he said the Valencia referee was “planning” his sending off in the October 19 match against Cádiz.
The then captain of Betic approached the Appeals Committee and based his appeal on the fact that he did not utter the word “planned”, but instead said an “unintelligible” term and that “what he meant was that he was allowed in haste (the two cards were very fast and I didn’t have time to talk to him), considering that proving that the referee was in a hurry would fall within the limits of freedom of expression”, something that was proven in the videos of the statements made in the next few days.
appeal rejected these arguments, because of the dissemination of the statements of Channels to a media outlet, because the complaint sent by the security director of the RFEF that came from the file translates the term “planned” and the basis for considering them as a serious violation according to article 106.
Later the player went to TAD and requested a precautionary suspension of the sanction which was denied, so he transferred the case to the ordinary justice system, which ruled in his favor.
Source: La Verdad
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