Why AFA Disciplinary Court delays verdict after Colón’s request to cancel demotion

The answer to Colonafter his request for cancellation of relegation to Primera Nacional, It took a week, it will arrive after Christmas but without fulfilling Sabalero’s wishes. The delay in presenting Gimnasia’s defense and the busy schedule of the members of the Disciplinary Tribunal of the Argentine Football Federation (AFA) – mostly judges from different jurisdictions – prevented the drafting of an already resolved sentence. There will be no room for the Santa Fe team’s claim to remain in the Professional League.

The writing of Wolf will not change the fortune of Sabalero. The Court asked for discharge for a purely bureaucratic issue: in his presentation Colón mentions the La Plata club, given that both played a decisive match to maintain the category.

So if nothing changes, Why didn’t the sentence arrive as expected? “It takes at least a couple of hours to prove it and the defense arrived at the last minute. The truth is that there was no time”, a member of the Disciplinary Court, who He reiterated that Colón’s descent will not be cancelled.

The “time” factor did not simply postpone that failure. Even the amnesty for players who finished the season with four yellow cards will have to wait for the last sentence of the year.

The episodes of the match between Rosario Central and River will also be part of the last bulletin of the Court in 2023, which will also mark the pause of that body – something like the judicial fair -, until the preview of the next tournament.

Because there is no place for Columbus’s claims

“(Colón’s) request was accepted as a matter of social courtesy, let’s say, and to maintain a spirit that we do not refuse anything in limine, because that would have left the club very exposed. We accept it, but it is impossible for the Court to say that this match is voidable and impossible. There is no chance on our side, no chance. “We are not here to cancel games.”a member of the Court confirmed to Clarín.

The arguments that the Court will use are based on the “extemporaneousness” of the request: COlón should have lodged a complaint before the relegation was consummated. “At least before the match against Gimnasia, not after,” they explained.

Even if with a longer wait that fuels suspicions, the Disciplinary Tribunal will close the year with the refusal for Colón who still dreams, without too many foundations, of a 2024 in the professional football league.