They will resort to the TAD the sanction to Gayà

The Valencia will appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAD) the sanction of four games of suspension to its captain José Luis Gayà for his criticism to the work of collegiate who led the match against Osasuna in Mestalla this past season after having been ratified by the committee of Appealaccording to sources from the Valencian entity.

At the end of that match, Gayà assured that the referee saw a penalty on Bryan Gil and did not want to call it and that at the break he told them that if he had pointed it out “they would have removed it from the VAR because there was no contact“. He also criticized that they had to warn him from that arbitration video of a “very clear penalty.” “We can’t say anything either because they give you a yellow card like me at the end of the game. They do what they want”lament.

Those statements caused the Integrity Committee of the Spanish Federation to open a office hourwhose instructor has proposed that the captain of the Mestalla team be sanctioned with four matchessomething that the Competition committee assumed and now the Appeals committee has ratified.

Competition argued that with his statements Gayà assured that “the referee deliberately stopped fulfilling one of his functions”, something that in his opinion would not be “legitimate criticism” or the “expression of a disagreement” that could be protected by freedom of expression. In this way, he established that they could be “attacks to the integrity of the arbitration group by questioning its impartiality”.

Valencia believes that the case is very similar to that of the former Cádiz coach Alvaro Cerverawho after a game against Granada assured of a possible penalty action that had no other explanation than not wanting to call it.

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After being sanctioned with four matches per Competition and ratifying the sanction on Appeal, the TAD lifted it when it understood that there were doubts about the intentionality of the technician and that freedom of expression should prevail in matters of public interest.