Global Courant
Madrid Spain.
Bombshell. He UEFA Appeals Committee has decided to leave Osasuna out of the Conference League 2023-2024, as reported to the Navarrese club on its website, which announces that it will resort to the TAS because it understands that it is “a serious violation of their rights.”
as required Osasuna, the members of the UEFA Appeals Committee “They have not taken into account the allegations presented by the entity last Friday and have reaffirmed the initial opinion of the inspectors of the UEFA Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Committee.”
The reasons why the Appeals Committee has decided to exclude Osasuna They will be transferred to the entity in the coming days, but already this Tuesday Osasuna stresses that “it does not share at all the criteria of the Uefa nor the investigation of the case carried out and regrets the erroneous message that UEFA sends to the world of football punishing those who denounce corruption and prosecute it judicially.
And he concludes that “the Osasuna Athletic Club It will continue to deploy all the legal instruments at its disposal to stand up to UEFA and put an end to what it considers a serious violation of its rights.
REASONS FOR SANCTION
The reason for this sanction is the sentence of the Spanish Supreme Court that condemns several former directors of the Osasuna for match fixing in the 2013-2014 season.
The facts for which Osasuna is sanctioned are based on the Supreme Court sentence of members of the board of directors of the rojillo team in the 2012-13 and 2013-14 seasons, for the crimes of misappropriation, accounting crime, documentary falsification and sports corruption.
The finalist of the last edition of the Copa del Rey He criticizes that UEFA is “strong with the weak and weak with the strong” and announced that he will appeal this decision not only before UEFA, but also through the courts.
Osasuna He also denounced that this issue causes “damage that has also occurred with the silence of the main Spanish football organizations, including the RFEF.”
The Navarrese club qualified for the Conference League after finishing in seventh position in the last Spanish League championship.
Osasuna is expected to try to appeal UEFA’s decision before the CAS, with the Navarrese trying to go to the last consequences with the aim of playing a historic continental competition in the 2023-24 campaign.
