He Real Zaragoza has requested the Higher Sports Council (CSD) the suspension of promotion playoff to First Division of Spanish football, in which Elche will be measured in the first round, due to the lack of integrity and the risk to health in the face of what they consider in their appeal as “a second wave” of the COVID-19.
The club has explained in a statement that when it did not receive a response to its request on August 4 before the sports authorities, it reiterated its arguments and requested the end of the competition.
At the resort, the team trained by Victor Fernandez argues that the agreement adopted for the variation of the dates of the promotion promotion dispute and the “excessive delay” of the 'play off' dispute causes the club “a sports damage impossible to repair”, since one of their best players and top scorer, the Hispanic-Colombian Luis Suárez Charris, you will not be able to take part in those confrontations.
This circumstance violates the sports 'fair play' requested by FIFA in its guide on the coronavirus and the return to competitions dated April 7, 2020 and causes “an obvious lack of equal opportunities and the consequent adulteration of the competition.”
Being deprived by external circumstances and impossible to foresee of one of their best players, they continue, they are in “manifest inferiority without breaking any rule”.
Thus, the Blanquilla squad proposes, in the same line that it had already planted in its previous requirement, one of these three solutions.
The first is to agree on the promotion of the six Second Division teams that finished in positions 1 to 6 in the regular season.
If so, and with the decline of the last three of First division, the 2020-2021 season would have 23 teams in the top flight.
Alternatively, that, “according to the impossibility of playing a 'play off' with the same weapons, equitably and without adulterating the competition,” the matches to be played they were all definitely finished with 0-0, which, due to the regulations, would make the best classified, Real Zaragoza, the one who had the right to promote.
If this second case is not considered, they request that their team, as third classified in the regular season, be recognized as the best and therefore as the one with the sports right to ascent.
In the letter they also indicate that the promotion on the agreed dates and under current conditions implies “a serious health risk of the professionals who participate in the celebration “.
So, without prejudice to the foregoing, they ask that a precautionary suspension measure of the dispute, “given the serious health risks that its dispute implies in the postponed dates of reference.”