He instructor of the file of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) for the party Deportivo-Fuenlabrada has proposed this Saturday the administrative descent of the Madrid team and a fine of 15,001 euros, a decision that will raise the Competition Committee, as EFE has learned.
Ricardo Esteban Diaz Sánchez, which was able to conclude the file once the Competition Committee
rejected two requests from Fuenlabrada to be challenged, understands that its proposal complies with the “principle of proportionality”, adapting to the seriousness of the offending acts “.
The registered club and the rest of the interested parties have a period of ten business days to formulate the accusations that they consider appropriate.
In the 45 pages of the file to which EFE has had access, it maintains that the actions of the Fuenlabrada He “departed” from what should have been a “respectful and loyal performance with the rules, with the competition, with fair play, with the rest of the contestants, the referees, the players and the competition's owner”.
“Far from it, it was an unsupportive performance, which looked exclusively for the interest of the club, to the detriment of the rest of the players in the competition, and which is even more reprehensible as it was the last match of the championship and not having repaired in the possible affectation to the health of the participants in the competition ”, justifies.
The instructor explains that Fuenlabrada was aware of four positives for COVID-19 on Sunday, July 19, the day before he traveled to Galicia to face the game with him Sports and on that date there is no evidence that the Federation or the Higher Sports Council (CSD) received information about.
“Failure to communicate this information to the CSD Yet the RFEF It could have remained a mere anecdote if it weren't for the fact that, in the end, where there were four cases they turned into twenty-eight, the celebration of the match had to be suspended being the last day and there was a distortion (so far never seen in the history of the Spanish football) of the competition ”, he says.
He understands that “indeed, the club (Fuenlabrada) and the LNFP deliberately hide all the information they knew, perhaps hoping the cases would not transcend ”.
“Later”, the instructor adds in his story, “when they have no choice, given that the situation had gotten out of control, is when on the afternoon of Monday, July 20, they decide to inform the General Directorate of Sports and this, in turn, from Secretary General of the RFEF”.
That, he points out in his file, encourages an emergency meeting to be held within the framework of the Monitoring Commission for the RFEF-LNFP Coordination Agreement, with the presence of CSD to deal with the matter.
He considers “somewhat striking the information that the Secretary General of the RFEF who states that he receives calls from CSD for the convening of a meeting without determining the matter and receiving emails from the LNFP in which the draft of the minutes of the meeting (which had not been held) is already being advanced without this institution being previously informed of anything ”.
In this sense, he believes that “the concealment of the information “by pate from Fuenlabrada and LaLiga led to the taking” of a decision that affects the entire competition. “
“If at the time they know the existence of four positive cases had been referred to the Commission, the matter could have been dealt with more time and, who knows, another decision would have been taken,” he reasons.
It also states that “deliberately, the club and the LNFP” withheld information, “even knowing that it is the Competition Committee the one that, in last instance, has the competence for the suspension of the parties ”.
It concludes on this side that if the positives had been communicated from the beginning “it is possible that the decisions would have been of a different nature, third clubs would not have been harmed in their interests by a matter for which they are not responsible but victims and, in definitively, the good sporting order and the end of the competition would not have been altered ”.
The instructor also maintains in his presentation that LaLiga left “the rest of the clubs participating in the competition to their fate” and showed “an excessive interest, acquiring an interested and overprotective role in defense of Fuenlabrada”.
“Between July 20 and August 14 there have been countless situations in relation to the Second Division competition,” says the judge, who “does not understand how certain things can be allowed to clubs that with their conduct have seriously harmed the competition ”, alluding to the fact that the match had finally been played on August 7.
He considers that the injured parties have been Deportivo, who could not “compete under equal conditions” and Numancia, who also fell on the last day.
It affects that the clubs that were fighting with them for permanence (Ponferradina, Albacete or Lugo) played their matches “in better conditions” than Deportivo, as they did not have the “sports pressure” that could have occurred if they all played at the same time
He also believes that a “serious and irreparable damage ”to Zaragoza, Almería, Girona and Elche, who qualified for the promotion promotion and have had to wait “several weeks” to contest it.
On the other hand, he understands that “one of the most serious facts and that, again, show the degree of concealment by the leaders (of the club) and the LNFP of the real situation, is what happens with the players themselves and the technical body ”of Fuenlabrada.
The instructor warns of inconsistencies in the doctor's account of the FuenlabradaTestimony that the Madrid club tried to invalidate during the procedure and concludes that “the players were not immediately informed of the positive cases or possible cases.”
“What is even more serious, they were not informed that they were really positive cases, that information was withheld from them and they were forced to train on Sunday and take a plane to Corunna Monday morning, “says the judge, who relies on the testimony of the representative of Hugo Fraile, Rodrigo Fernández Lovelle, ratified by the player.
He also claims that “there is no more revealing evidence of the club's malicious concealment of what was happening than the fact that the coach (José Ramón Sandoval), the team's top technical manager, did not know of the existence of positive cases until Monday afternoon, when the situation is completely out of control ”.
The instructor too criticizes the AFE union, which says that “He has not shown the slightest interest in defending his players, except for the submission of documentation ”that was required.