MADRID, 14 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Administrative Court of Sport (TAD) has dismissed the appeal presented by Real Betis for the four-game ban on midfielder Sergio Canales, who had received the precautionary suspension of his punishment for his statements about referee Antonio Mateu Lahoz until the final ruling and that he was able to play the duel against Cádiz last week.
In this way, the body dependent on the Higher Sports Council (CSD) ratifies the sanction imposed by the Appeals Committee on the Cantabrian footballer for his statements about the Valencian referee, to whom it attributed a premeditated action in his expulsion last October in the duel of the tenth day of LaLiga Santander against Cádiz in the Nuevo Mirandilla.
On that occasion, Canales saw two yellow cards in a row at the discount of the match. Months later, the Spanish international referred to that expulsion, after Mateu Lahoz also directed the duel between Betis and Real Valladolid. “I was clear that I wasn’t even going to address Mateu Lahoz. Although I’m the captain, today I wasn’t going to talk to him. I think the expulsion in Cádiz was premeditated. I didn’t even protest,” he said after that other game.
The Competition Committee decided to penalize these statements because “the attribution of premeditation to the referee -that is, pointing out that he had thought through the decision carefully and carefully before adopting- clearly questions his impartiality and honesty by imputing him with a kind of attitude fraudulent in making the decision,” the file says.
Canales has already completed the first of his four suspension matches in the clash in which Manuel Pellegrini’s men faced Atlético de Madrid at the Cívitas Metropolitano (1-0). Subsequently, Betis resorted to ordinary justice and the Central Contentious-Administrative Court Number 4 granted him the precautionary suspension until the final ruling of the TAD, so Canales was able to play last week against Cádiz, where he was sent off again .