The Mexican Football Federation will appeal against the sanction imposed on his senior team by the FIFA that forces him to play his next two official home matches without an audience in the stands, announced this Wednesday the president of the entity, Yon de Luisa.
The management, admitted the manager, can reach the Court of Arbitration for Sports (TAS) if the arguments of the Mexican Federation are not addressed.
“(The appeal) is being worked on. We still cannot go into details because the final document of the Appeals Committee (of FIFA) has not been sent,” De Luida explained at a press conference.
FIFA notified the Mexican Federation at the beginning of November the imposition of a fine of $ 108,860 and the additional sanction of two home games behind closed doors by the screams of fans who are considered homophobic.
These expressions were given during the 2022 World Cup qualifying matches that the ‘Tri’ played last October at the Azteca stadium against the teams of Canada and Honduras.
“We will be working to avoid any act of discrimination in our stadiums. That is our strategy and we will do so. We are communicating to FIFA that it is easier to move forward with full stadiums, with our people, than with closed stadiums,” said De Louise. The manager admitted that if FIFA does not lift its punishment to Mexico, it is likely that the Federation will take the case to the CAS.
If FIFA maintains its sanction on Mexico, the official matches without an audience in the Azteca stands would be played on January 30 against Costa Rica and on February 2 against Panama.
De Luisa anticipated that he intends to bring forthcoming qualifying matches of the Mexican team to other states of the country, to bring the ‘Tri’ closer to the public.
“Our original plan was to bring the national team closer to other stadiums in other venues, but now we must wait for the final solution from FIFA or TAS to know how we are going to operate,” he said. And he pointed out: “We want to bring the selection closer to other hobbies and not because of the shout, but because they deserve it.”
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