The players of Zaragoza and Levante acquitted for the alleged adjustment but condemn two directors of the club maño

The Legal Court docket quantity 7 of Valencia has acquitted the judges of Zaragoza and the Levant of the alleged dimension of the match performed at the Ciutat de València stadium in 2011 between each groups on the final day of the league and wherein the Aragonese managed to keep away from the decline of class.

Nonetheless, two executives of the Aragonese club have been convicted for falsification in a business doc: the former proprietor, Agapito Iglesias and the advisor Francisco Javier Porquera, as judicial sources have confirmed.

On this macro-trial, 42 defendants have sat on the bench, amongst which was the Aragonese club itself, and a large number of players – a big half of them already retired – from each groups, who’ve been acquitted, amongst that are related names in the world of soccer as the present PSG participant Ander Herrera or the former Atlético de Madrid Gabi, who now performs for Al-Sadd in Qatar.

On the Zaragoza aspect, along with the club, the counselor Francisco José Checa was accused; former coach Javier Aguirre and former sports activities director Antonio Prieto; the Maurizio Lanzarote players; Antonio Doblas; Paulo César da Silva; Jorge López; Ander Herrera; Braulio Nóbrega; Leonardo Daniel Ponzio; Gabriel Fernández ('Gabi'); Carlos Andrés Diogo; Ivan Obradovic; Ikechukwu Uche; Adam Jozsef Pinter; Javier Paredes; Leo Franco; Jiri Jarosik; Nicolás Santiago Bertolo; Mentioned Boutahar and Angel Imanol Lafita.

In the case of Levante, the players have been Miguel Pallardó; Gustavo Adolfo Munúa; Héctor Rodas; Rafael Jordá; Rubén Suárez; Xavier Torres; Christian Ricardo Stuani; Wellington Alves; Jefferson Montero; Miguel Robusté; Javier Rodríguez Venta (Javi 'Sale'); Manuel Reina; Felipe Caicedo; Vicente Iborra, Francisco Javier 'Xisco' Muñoz; Sergio Martínez Ballesteros and these often called 'Juanfran' and 'Cerra'.

The case got here to trial after the Valencian Court docket agreed to reopen a closed investigation in its day contemplating that there have been indications that 9 players, the coach and the sports activities director of Zaragoza acquired the quantity of practically a million days earlier than the recreation. euros, cash that may have ended up in the palms of the processed Levante players. Zaragoza wanted to win that match to make sure permanence in the First Division and thus led to the decline of Deportivo de La Coruña.