No one will complain from the refereeing establishment to the words spoken last night by the Nigerian Ugh on the ESPN network, where he complains about the treatment he’s been receiving in these early days of the League. Among them, the player of the Azulón team denounced that in “the first two or three games I saw it with my own eyes. Referees are terrible“, to continue adding that “they gave it to me kicks and the referee said I have to get up. Nope. It’s a foul, you have to shoot. But if they kick another player the referee just blows his whistle and that’s very painful.”
Some words that, although expressed in a media, are about a opinion but never honor is discussed and integrity of the arbitration panel. And everything else is possible interpretations. Furthermore, he does not use bad words or embarrassing as stated in article 106 of the Disciplinary Code about “statements by any means about members of the arbitration group or members of regulatory guarantee bodies.”
Article which literally says that “the making of any person subject to sports discipline of statements by any means in which the honesty and impartiality by any member of the arbitration panel or the bodies of the RFEF; as well as statements indicating disapproval of the activity of any member of the aforementioned groups when they are made with contempt or when offensive, insulting, humiliating or bad-sounding language is used” allowed. In his case, the penalty involves between four and twelve games in addition to a fine of 601 to 3,005.06 euros.
It explains that a complaint will not be transferred to the Disciplinary Committee, which will result in the opening of an extraordinary file which will require the appointment of an instructor. And in a very high percentage that no penalty ends up applying because these words can be considered a exercise of freedom of expression of the player. There are also precedents where in similar situations, in the end the TAD or the ordinary justice system ended up annulling the punishment precisely because it considered that it was in the exercise of freedom of expression.
Nothing to do with, for example, the words of Like at the end of the 2021-2022 season where he questioned the impartiality of the referee and which involved four matches. Or the same penalty imposed on the Girona player, David Lopez, when he said in front of television cameras that referee Ortiz Arias insulted them.
Source: La Verdad
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