2023-07-04 18:38:43
Less than 48 hours before Osasuna stars in the chupinazo that kicks off the San Fermín festivities, the UEFA Appeals Committee has decided to leave Osasuna out of the 2023-2024 Conference League, according to the Navarrese club on its page website, which announces that it will resort to the TAS because it understands that it is “a serious violation of their rights”.
According to Osasuna, the members of the UEFA Appeals Committee “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 will be transferred to the entity in the coming days, but already this Tuesday Osasuna stresses that “it does not share UEFA’s criteria at all nor the investigation of the case carried out and regrets the wrong message that UEFA sends to the world of football by punishing those who denounce corruption and legally prosecute it”.
And he concludes that “Club Atlético Osasuna 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.”
Osasuna’s sports director, Braulio Vázquez, was very forceful when referring to the UEFA sanction that excludes his team from participating in the Conference League and stated that he does not believe “in anything”, that he does not care “what they tell me I don’t know what the term justice is here”. “It makes you want to leave everything, football, directly. I have doubts about everything. In the end we are an example for everyone. There are people here who bet their assets for this club to survive. You report yourself to the police and in the end they punish you to you, it’s a double punishment, a bit surreal,” Vázquez said in a serious tone during José Arnaiz’s presentation.
Vázquez highlighted the damage “at the image level” that they are suffering: “it is incalculable. Credibility takes a long time to have it, it is easily lost. They are not doing a lot of damage, but a lot.” “It’s a previous management, the new managers come and we are an example for the majority of Spanish football. They give us an example in England, the United States, we are going to give presentations on the Osasuna model and, suddenly, after achieving the maximum, they they remove it,” he asserted forcefully. “I thought it was a joke, false news. We have earned it on the field, I don’t think there is any doubt. We are an example of management and I don’t even know what is going to happen, but I am totally detached from any decision “He finished with some resignation.
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