This UEFA forwarded to the board this friday Osasuna He said his investigators recommended that the Navarrese team be removed from its next edition. Conference League as punishment match fixing in 2013as reported by the club.
After receiving the reports of the two members of the UEFA Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Committee charged with examining the case, this body, Opening a disciplinary case against the Navarrese club.
Arguing that before UEFA, the club itself appears to be a special accusation against the managers accused of fixing match-fixing, Osasuna still said. the possibility of presenting new claims forbefore the Appeal Committee before a final statement.
UEFA inspectors, The Supreme Court’s decision condemning several former directors of the rojilla entity is reason enough removing Osasuna from European competitions nine years after the events.
The Navarrese club declares that it does not share the UEFA criteria, therefore it will apply to the Board of Appeal and will fight legally, “Until the final resultsthey understand that because they defend their rights”, they are “deprived of the right to participate in European competitions that have been fairly won on the field”.
“Strong with weak, weak with strongThe UEFA courts did not want to take into account that it was the Spanish courts of justice who literally declared that they were the victims of money diversion carried out in secret by some of the former managers of Osasuna. Assembly, the organization’s highest governing body, and the club’s control mechanisms”, underlines Osasuna.
With this decision, UEFA adds, “it intends to re-punish Osasuna in the figure of the current managers who are exactly them. made a complaint taking legal action in court”.
“We are facing perhaps the only known case in the recent history of European football where a club has prosecuted some of its former managers, who are now awaiting jail time,” explains the Rojillo club.
A club where “those who accuse him today won’t stand an exemplary test” and a new board of directors. a hobby that lives through the pain of his team’s near disappearanceThose who were punished today,” Osasuna said in a statement.
In Osasuna’s view, the message conveyed by UEFA “undoubtedly backfires for football. and for organizations that are at risk of being penalized by Europe’s highest football body and have chosen no longer to attack corruption in the football world head-on. “Osasuna understands that this cannot and should not be the goal UEFA is chasing.”
Club condemns RFEF’s “silence”
Osasuna regrets that this damage has also occurred, after underlining that “the damage to the entity’s image is very serious.”with the silence of the main organs of Spanish football, including RFEFHe also condemns “constant manipulative leaks in a national key to certain media outlets and journalists to create a story that sacrifices the weak in favor of the strong.”
Announcing that they will defend their rights, the Navarrese club said: “We are prepared for the worst, but we do not put aside the motto that has accompanied us in the rebuilding of the club for the past nine years: Osasuna never gives up”. and those of his hobby. “With the enthusiasm they cheer us on every weekend, with the same effort our players and coaches make to earn their rightful place in the next Conference League.”
In this sense, he ends his words as follows: “We believe so much in what we do and how we do it. We cannot allow the use of Club Atlético OsasunaWith the consent of those who look the other way to solve other people’s problems in 2014″.