2023-09-15 12:04:25
Article 23 of the Sports Law of 2022 states: “It is obligation of federated athletes attend selection calls national sports for participation in international competitions, or for the preparation thereof”.
Converted the call to a selection in a duty that must be obeyed and not a right or a privilege, Rejection of that call carries a punishment. Although it is never applied, generally when there is an early resignation, public or not, of the athlete. It remains to be seen if the Spanish Football Federation adopts the same position in the new statement of the 80 soccer players (including the 23 world champions) who expressed their refusal to attend the selection if no changes were made. The 15 who gave up the World Cup They were not punished.
Duties of athletes
Article 23 is the “duties of athletes”, because article 22 refers to “rights”. And since it is considered a duty to obey the call of the coach of any discipline, the sanction for failure to comply with that duty is articulated: “The unjustified lack of attendance at the calls of the national sports teams, as well as the failure to disposition of the national teams of the athletes who have been designated to be part of them”, reads article 104.
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It is immersed in the section of the “very serious violations.” It would only be serious if this rejection of the selection – more frequent, for example, in basketball – a judge considered that it was a “repeated failure to comply with orders, requirements, resolutions and instructions issued by the competent sports bodies.”
The catalog of “very serious” punishments for violations of article 104.1 (where the waiver of selection is included) begins with the financial fine, which ranges between 3,000.01 euros and 30,000 euros, and ends with the “suspension of the federal license or equivalent temporary qualification for a period between two and fifteen years old“.
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