The Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAD) clarified this Tuesday the situation of João Palhinha and explained, in a document published on the website of the organization, that he annulled the punishment, but not the yellow card seen by the Sporting midfielder in Bessa (15 game) Round and that the lion won 2-0).
Palhinha then counts five yellow cards, the next being the first in a new series.
An clarification that follows a request from the Portuguese Football Federation, in order to clarify the number of cards by João Palhinha, after the TAD has annulled the punishment to the player, applied in a summary process and confirmed in an appeal for the full amount of the Disciplinary Board. A punishment that is now suspended until the final decision of the courts (first TCA Sul, to which the FPF was appealed)
Read below the note from TAD on the cards to Palhinha:
«It is very clear, for everything when the Arbitral College did not say and for all that the Arbitral College said, that there was – and could not be – any annulment of the yellow card displayed by the referee Fábio Veríssimo to the Plaintiff in the subjudice game. It is quite clear, however, that what the Arbitral College decided was that such a yellow card – in view of the content of the aforementioned pronunciation formally requested from the referee Fábio Veríssimo and although this was actually shown during the sub judice game – no
it can integrate the hypothesis, the forecast, the tatbestand, the facti species of the sanctioning rule typified in article 164, paragraph 7, of the RDLPFP, and should therefore not have any effects within the scope of this same sanctioning rule. “
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