The instructor proposes the defeat of Fuenlabrada 3-0

He instructor of the Fuenlabrada Case has proposed to the Competition Committee that the Madrid team should be considered as lost the game that it had to play on Monday July 20 at Riazor in A Coruña 3-0 for a flagrant and serious violation of alteration of good sports order. That measure, in principle precautionary, will allow Elche to play the promotion playoff against Zaragoza. The other semifinal tie will be Almería-Girona.

The instructor It takes this measure a day before calling to declare the president of the Fuenlabrada, Jonathan Praena; the coach, José Ramón Sandoval, the footballer Hugo Fraile and the club doctor so that they give their version of events. Competition, according to article 30 of the Disciplinary Code, has a maximum of ten working days to ratify, modify or reject that proposal made and it will be then, with the precautionary granted, when it can set a date for the start of the Playoff as long as there is a control over the infected and the problem does not go further. It will be next week when the investigating judge Ricardo Esteban Díaz Sánchez enters the merits of the case to position himself on the file opened to Fuenlabrada and proposes or not a sanction. The Fuenlabrada, as AS has been able to know, expected this proposal given by the examining judge, especially after their challenge was dismissed. Within the club there is tranquility. Deportivo welcomes this first move, but is confident that there will be more as it is still insufficient. With these three points it is still lagging.

Among its foundations, the instructor states: “In the present case, it is inferred from the facts found after the suspension of the meeting, and during this instruction, that the conduct of the file produced a serious alteration of good sports order, affecting the integrity and equality of the participants in the competition. “

The instructor indicates that on Saturday, July 18 the Fuenlabrada already had evidence of the existence of at least one positive and that on the morning of the 20th, before traveling to A Coruña, the number had increased to four. And that by mid-afternoon of that day, the laboratory reported eight more positives.

According to the instructor, on July 18, “communication should have been established with the health authorities and with the Monitoring Commission for the COVID-19 RFEF-LNFP (with the presence of the CSD), in order to assess the situation from the competitive and health point of view, and take the most appropriate decision and according to the integrity of the competition. However, not only was it not communicated sufficiently in advance, but the information transferred was partial, therefore, said Commission was deprived of essential data to make its decision. “

Nor, according to his account, was the positive made known to the Community of Madrid, as is mandatory, the positive on Saturday. “Still with everything, the club undertook the journey to A Coruña, putting the squad and the match officials at risk, that they ate at the same hotel and had not been informed, nor the Technical Referees Committee, of anything that was happening. The refereeing team only had knowledge of what happened at the time of going out to inspect the field of play, “reads the ruling.

Hiding the problem

And it continues: “The medical certificate provided by the expedited club recognizes that the previous days -Saturday and Sunday- the rest of the footballers in the squad had been in common places at distances less than two meters and for more than 15 minutes. Not even the members of the first team squad knew of the outbreak until four hours before the game, when they had already moved to A Coruña, depriving them of essential, vital information, they had to know in detail before getting on the plane. “

The instructor understands that there was, therefore, “a manifest concealment of the true situation by those responsible for the club.” And he explains that if the match were played now, Fuenlabrada “would now have the advantage of knowing the results obtained by their rivals in the fight to access the playoff for promotion to the National League Championship of the First Division and of facing an opponent who would know that he had been relegated and who has not trained for daysr, or with low performance. It is a general principle of law that those who are presumably responsible for the situation created cannot benefit from their actions. “

And it concludes, to explain the adoption of the precautionary measure, that “there are teams pending to play, training, with risk exposed to the health of their coaching staff while the situation is elucidated and clarified “at an epidemiologically delicate moment in the country