The sanction is now official Marc Overmars: The Netherlands Football Federation (KNVB) announced this Wednesday that the former Dutch player cannot hold any position or job related to professional football for at least one year. FIFA has extended the suspension of Overmars on an international level.
It appeared on Tuesday, through the NBC newspaper, that the FIFA punishment extended to Overmars. But this Wednesday when the KNVB announced the punishment, which was imposed on the former player because of his practice of harassing several women within the Ajax.
Overmarswho played on Barcelona between 2000 and 2004, he left his position as football director of Ajax in February 2022 after admitting his “inappropriate” behavior with several women from the ‘ajacied’ club, to whom he sent messages and photographs.
An independent sports court has already given the sanction Overmars in 2023, he was removed from any position in football Netherlands for 2 years in relation to the matter. The KNVB then asked FIFA to extend the punishment to the rest of the world. November 16, 2023 will be taken as the start date of the suspension.
After leaving the Ajax, Overmars He is currently technical director of Antwerp. The former Dutch international, who has the possibility of appealing the sanction of FIFAhas not yet commented on the punishment.
Marc Overmars, 50, has been capped 86 times (17 goals) by the Netherlands. Throughout his career, he played for Go Ahead Eagles, Willem II, Ajax, Arsenal, Barcelona and again for Go Ahead Eagles, from which he retired in 2009.
Source: La Verdad
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