Colón, for a “great writing”: the AFA disciplinary tribunal defines whether or not to annul his demotion to the First National Team

It is expected this Thursday Disciplinary Tribunal make a definitive ruling on the request made by Columbus of Santa Fewho requested the annulment of his demotion to First National due to changes to the AFA regulations that occurred during the competition.

The president of the AFA Claudio Tapiamet this week on the Ezeiza property with the outgoing settler leader, José Vignattiand vice Patrick Flemingto conclude on this statement made by the sports law lawyer representing the “sabalers”, Ariel Reck.

With the decline of Arsenal Already accomplished, Colón was second last in the 2023 annual ranking together with Gimnasia y Esgrima de la Plata and had to play a tie-break to determine who would be relegated to the Primera Nacional: the match was a 1-0 victory for Lobo and condemnation for the team led by Israel Damonte. This is what half of Santa Fe dreams of changing on their desks.

In Colón, Vignatti’s successor, the former club player Víctor Godano, who was at the helm of the institution ten years ago and is in his second term, takes over the presidency. One of the first decisions of the incoming commission was the hiring of the new “sabalero” coach, Ivan Delfinowho accepted the proposal but still doesn’t know which category he should work in.

The AFA Disciplinary Tribunal issues its rulings on the Thursday of each week, so it will have to decide on the matter on the last one in 2023. Once the teams that will compete in the Professional football league and the First National Next year, the calendar that has already emerged in the last few hours, foreseen in a draft by the Argentine football authorities, will begin to be made official.

One of the changes that the AFA has in mind for the year 2024 is to reorganize the matches of the reserve divisions, which could disappear as such and regionalize them, replacing them with selective ones that play home runs with other neighboring teams. the high costs of transferring delegations.

Columbus’ claim: why he asks to cancel his descent

“In mid-2023, the AFA Assembly decided to amend article 90 of the Statute and therefore of the relegations, eliminating one of the relegations. This happened with the season already underway. Therefore a modification of the regulations” With the competition already underway and the teams logically contracted on the basis of a previous regulation, cannot be validly admitted. This new system adopted during the season already underway is manifestly illegitimate and violates the guarantees of legal and sporting equality.”

“In addition to violating the principle of non-retroactivity of the law, the regulatory change was adopted by the ordinary Assembly and not by the competent body, which is the Executive Committee. Evidently the cancellation of a disputed match on the basis of a rule corresponds to nothing, for not having been approved in compliance with the essential principles of the regulation: by an incompetent body and by retroactively applying a modification without this having been approved by all members of the Executive Committee.

“A play-off match played on the basis of a modified regulation may not be permitted in the course of the competition without the approval of all members of the Executive Committee. The amendments of the June 2023 Assembly without the approval of all members of the Committee , should still have been in effect starting from the 2024 season.”

“For the reasons set out above, we ask the President to consider the challenge to the regulatory change and the related protest to exist and, consequently, the annulment of the result of the disputed match and the change to the Championship Regulations approved by the Committee. The extraordinary meeting was cancelled. of 22 June 2023”, closes the content of the appeal.