The coach of Cádiz, Álvaro Cervera, has been sanctioned with four games suspended by the Competition Committee of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) as a result of some statements by the coach after the match of the fifth day of LaLiga against Granada, announced this Wednesday the Andalusian club, which also described the decision as “unfair” and will appeal it.
“This afternoon, the Cádiz Football Club has received notification from the RFEF Competition Committee of the sanction to the coach Álvaro Cervera of four games, after the resolution of the investigating judge that began with the complaint presented by the integrity department of the RFEF, “says the letter.
“The entity considers unfair and disproportionate said sanction, for which he is already working to carry out the pertinent resources, which show that our coach at no time made any manifestation contrary to current regulations, and of course harmful to the arbitration body, which we have defended and will always defend ” , adds the statement from Cádiz.
On October 4, at the conclusion of the match of the fifth day played between Cádiz and Granada at the Ramón de Carranza stadium, which ended with a 1-1 draw, Álvaro Cervera referred to a possible penalty in the Granada area in the last minutes of the crash.
The Cadista coach commented, to questions from the journalists, that the match referee, Javier Alberola Rojas, of the Castellano-Manchego Committee, and their assistants they did not whistle a penalty in a fall by Alberto Perea after Foulquier's entry in the Granada area (m.86) it is because “they didn't want to.”
The technician stated that the play had been “seen by everyone” and added that for him “there is no explanation” for not having pointed out the infraction.
Days after, the president of Cádiz, Manuel Vizcaíno, supported to the coach of his team, to whom the Spanish Federation initiated a file for the statements in relation to the refereeing of the match.
Vizcaíno, in a telematic press conference, he reiterated the Cervera's statements about that alleged penalty, although he also alluded to the “honesty” of the arbitration group, which “is normally mistreated”, but in regard to this action he stated that Cervera's statements “do not question” that honesty.
Vizcaíno recalled that Cervera he did not use “offensive, insulting, humiliating or rude language” and added that the penalty was, in his opinion, “from a book”.
The visible head of the Cadiz board of directors said that the VAR is the tool that “brings the small (teams) closer to the big ones” and that it should “help” the referee to “make the best decision”, but that in this case “did not help the referee”, of which he is “convinced” of his honesty and that “he did not see it.”