The Competition Committee of the Spanish Football Federation sees ‘reasonable indications’ of possible Racist insults from Juan Cala, Cádiz player, to Mouctar Diakhaby, Valencia footballer, for which he has proceeded to the opening of an extraordinary disciplinary file against the aforementioned Cádiz player.
This is what the Committee has communicated this Wednesday, which underlines in its note that it proceeds in this way due to the existence of the aforementioned reasonable indications but also due to the “brief from Director of Integrity and Security of the RFEF, denouncing “the facts and of the Valencia CF.
The Department of Integrity of the Federation and Valencia requested the opening of the file
The Committee stresses that “it considers essential act firmly in relation to any action, manifestation or statement that is susceptible to violence, racism, xenophobia or intolerance in football ”.
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Based on this decision of the Committee, a process will begin, led by Juan Antonio Landaberea Unzueta as Instructor of the file, in which all the information and possible testimonies will be collected before the adoption, if applicable, of a sanction.
The punishment, if it is shown that Cala insulted Diakhaby in racist terms, could range from one month and two years suspension and always with a minimum of four parties suspension.
Juan Cala offered a press conference in which he declared that the accusations were false
The discussion of the controversy between Cala and Diakhaby