Mauras
Premiership
- 7 October 2002
What was expected (and in my op. needed) is now official.
FIFA has suspended Portugal from all international competitions meaning champions league, uefa cup and euro 2008 qualifiers.
The punishment takes effect from the 14th september on if the portuguese FA fails to stop Gil Vicente FC decision to claim for justice in the civil courts in the "Mateus" case.
What is the "Mateus" case?
It's the perfect example of how corrupt and lame portuguese soccer is. Mateus is an angolan player apperently ilegaly registred and used by Gil Vicente last season. After the last day of season one of the fights for descent was between Gil Vicente and Belenenses. On the field Belenenses went to 2nd division, after loosing at Gil Vicente. Nevertheless Belenenses protested about the "mateus" incident and then began a soap opera that lasted months and ended in this decision.
The case went on an on, the prior favourable decision for Belenenses staying in the 1st division was turned back once by a comittee in which there was a person related to Gil Vicente, then the case went weeks without decision, with several decision makers resigning.
The portuguese league was about to began and the case was unsolved, with Gil already turning to civil courts, which is not acepted by FIFA (which would lead to a huge discussion of it's own) and the league began without the Benfica vs Gil or Belenenses taking place.
This story perfecly shows what is portuguese football (and were do the brazilians, our "heirs" get the natural talent for confusion and corruption in their soccer
Add this to the "Apito Dourado" (golden whistle) case also taking place here (and apparently "quieted" down) a very similar case to CalcioCaos in which the FC Porto president, the Professional League president, the Referee comittee president and other ppl (including refs) were investigated and accused of forgering results after their phones were tapped and evidence colected. Guess what? the main corrupt ones still remain unpunished .
FIFA has suspended Portugal from all international competitions meaning champions league, uefa cup and euro 2008 qualifiers.
The punishment takes effect from the 14th september on if the portuguese FA fails to stop Gil Vicente FC decision to claim for justice in the civil courts in the "Mateus" case.
What is the "Mateus" case?
It's the perfect example of how corrupt and lame portuguese soccer is. Mateus is an angolan player apperently ilegaly registred and used by Gil Vicente last season. After the last day of season one of the fights for descent was between Gil Vicente and Belenenses. On the field Belenenses went to 2nd division, after loosing at Gil Vicente. Nevertheless Belenenses protested about the "mateus" incident and then began a soap opera that lasted months and ended in this decision.
The case went on an on, the prior favourable decision for Belenenses staying in the 1st division was turned back once by a comittee in which there was a person related to Gil Vicente, then the case went weeks without decision, with several decision makers resigning.
The portuguese league was about to began and the case was unsolved, with Gil already turning to civil courts, which is not acepted by FIFA (which would lead to a huge discussion of it's own) and the league began without the Benfica vs Gil or Belenenses taking place.
This story perfecly shows what is portuguese football (and were do the brazilians, our "heirs" get the natural talent for confusion and corruption in their soccer
Add this to the "Apito Dourado" (golden whistle) case also taking place here (and apparently "quieted" down) a very similar case to CalcioCaos in which the FC Porto president, the Professional League president, the Referee comittee president and other ppl (including refs) were investigated and accused of forgering results after their phones were tapped and evidence colected. Guess what? the main corrupt ones still remain unpunished .