Barcelona Makes Official Statement Over FIFA Ban, READ What They Plan To Do

Barcelona Makes Official Statement Over FIFA Ban, READ What They Plan To Do

Spanish power house, Barcelona has finally made an official statement over ban place on them by FIFA from participating in the next two transfer windows.

Investigations had been conducted by Fifa Transfer Matching System (Fifa TMS) and then by Fifa Disciplinary Committee to check on Barcelona activities over the course of last year and  they were found to have breached international transfer rules regarding the transfer of minors.

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 * FC Barcelona players

The investigations particularly monitored Barcelona transfers between 2009 and 2013 and According to article 19 of the Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players, international transfers of Foreign players are only allowed if the player is older than 18, exceptions may only be given after evaluation by the sub-committee of the Players’ Status Committee.

The Disciplinary Committee sanctioned Barcelona with a ban on Future transfers at both international and local level for two complete transfer windows and also fined the club CHF 450,000 (€369,000).

Below is the full official statement released by Barcelona on their website a moment ago:

Following the sanction imposed by the FIFA Disciplinary Committee on FC Barcelona (FCB) for offenses involving the transfer and registration of players under 18, FCB would like to make the following points:

For all the above mentioned reasons, FCB will be presenting the corresponding appeal to FIFA and should it be necessary, take the resulting resolution to the Tribunal d’Arbitratge de ‘Esport (TAS).

FCB will also demand the relevant interim measures needed to preserve the Club’s rights, amongst which are those along to it to sign players in transfer windows. 

Source: Legit.ng

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