Colombian footballers demand the resignation of the members of the Disciplinary Committee of Dimayor

The Colombian Association of Professional Soccer Players (Acolfutpro) lashed out at the members of the Disciplinary Committee of the championship Dimayor, demanding their resignation due to incompetence, after the two false steps regarding the case of Andrés Felipe Andrade Y Jarlan Barreraby Atlético Nacional. The footballers received, less than 24 hours before the first game of the quarter finals of the Colombian league, against America from Cali, the notification that indicated that they could not participate in the duel due to accumulation of yellows and, later, they were given the green light to play.

“The inadmissible error of the Disciplinary Committee of the Dimayor championship, by violating the fundamental right to due process of two Atlético Nacional players, after being sanctioned twice for the same act, is ample reason for the members of said commission to give one step to the side. The nature and integrity of the competition cannot be put at risk “Acolfutpro pointed out in the statement published through its social networks.

The story had its first chapter last Friday, when the ‘purslane’ painting reviewed, with surprise, the sanctions bulletin of the local championship and included his two talented midfielders for bookings. The Antioquia club indicated that the two involved paid with the date that corresponded to them in the match against Cúcuta Deportivo, game they won on the desktop for the legal problems of the ‘motilón’ box.

The incoherence of the entity that regulates the championship motivated the ‘purslane’ to issue a statement this Saturday, where it requested the postponement of the commitment with the ‘red devils’, in the Pascual Guerrero.

“After learning about 9:39 pm on Friday, November 20 and with the team already installed in the city of Cali to face the first leg for the BetPlay League Quarterfinals, the notification that the players Jarlan Barrera and Andrés Andrade had to meet the sanction date in said meeting and without enough time to appeal this decision, Atlético Nacional demands the right to defense and therefore request the postponement of the agreed match for Saturday, November 21 at 8:00 pm., in order for the Club to be heard, together with its legal team, to clarify an irregularity that we find between resolutions 023 and 024 issued by the Championship Disciplinary Committee “, indicated the institution.

Afterwards, the managers at Dimayor reversed their initial decision and enabled footballers for engagement, mentioning that they had paid with the suspension day.

In the field, the green Antioquia imposed conditions and won 2-1 on the ‘scarlet’ box, with a double by Jéfferson Duque, and will close the key at the Atanasio Girardot, next weekend, to seal his passage to the semifinals of the local league.