so this case has been messing with the whole start of season of the two main Portuguese leagues, and it's been dragging around for like half a year now..
i'm not completely into this case, but it now involves Gil Vicente, Belenenses and Leixões, all three wanting to get the spot at the Portuguese 1st division..just because apparently there was some irregularity with Mateus, a Gil Vicente player, and he souldn't have played, which he did. Now Belenenses(who were relegated) claim they should go back to the 1st division and that Gil Vicente should get relegated..and now Leixões(who were the best positioned of the teams who didn't get promoted in the 2nd division) say they should be promoted not Belenenses because they proved themselves on the pitch...
the worst part is that this whole case was a football affair untill Gil Vicente decided to appeal to a Civil Court, something that FIFA does not allow.
so this is really a friggin mess, and i don't know if you guys(non-portuguese) are going to get it at all, but what i want to say is that FIFA can punish Portuguese football by suspendind FC Porto, Sporting and Benfica from the Champions League, and Portugal from the Euro 2008 qualifiers..just because Blatter wants to make this case an example...
now FIFA already convinced Juventus, who were in a similar case, not to appeal to a Civil Court, but these guys at Gil Vicente say they want to go all the way....
this is it...the rest of the Portuguese Armada can explain what i didn't make so clear..
don't take this as a portuguese case only, because this sh*t is bound to affect things internationally...
i'm not completely into this case, but it now involves Gil Vicente, Belenenses and Leixões, all three wanting to get the spot at the Portuguese 1st division..just because apparently there was some irregularity with Mateus, a Gil Vicente player, and he souldn't have played, which he did. Now Belenenses(who were relegated) claim they should go back to the 1st division and that Gil Vicente should get relegated..and now Leixões(who were the best positioned of the teams who didn't get promoted in the 2nd division) say they should be promoted not Belenenses because they proved themselves on the pitch...
the worst part is that this whole case was a football affair untill Gil Vicente decided to appeal to a Civil Court, something that FIFA does not allow.
so this is really a friggin mess, and i don't know if you guys(non-portuguese) are going to get it at all, but what i want to say is that FIFA can punish Portuguese football by suspendind FC Porto, Sporting and Benfica from the Champions League, and Portugal from the Euro 2008 qualifiers..just because Blatter wants to make this case an example...
now FIFA already convinced Juventus, who were in a similar case, not to appeal to a Civil Court, but these guys at Gil Vicente say they want to go all the way....
this is it...the rest of the Portuguese Armada can explain what i didn't make so clear..
don't take this as a portuguese case only, because this sh*t is bound to affect things internationally...