As the FPF CD plenum maintained the 35-day punishment, Pinto da Costa may also file a precautionary measure with the Sports Arbitration Court (TAD), which, if accepted, will allow him to be present on the pitch of the National Stadium in May 26th.
The full body of the Disciplinary Council (CD) of the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) judged as unfounded the appeal presented by the outgoing president of FC Porto SAD, Pinto da Costa, due to the 35-day suspension.
A source linked to the process told the Lusa agency that the appeal filed this week by the director, who had been punished with more than a month of punishment and a fine of 5,610 euros, was not upheld by the professional section of that disciplinary body.
Pinto da Costa was sanctioned for “injury to honor and reputation and slanderous accusation”, due to criticism directed at the refereeing at the end of the defeat of the team coached by Sérgio Conceição in the visit to Estoril Praia (1-0), on March 30, for the 27th round of the I League.
The director accused the main referee António Nobre, from the Leiria association, of “not being able to referee” FC Porto’s visit to Estoril, the incidents of which led to the opening of proceedings against the ‘dragões’ SAD, which was fined 15,810 euros, and to its president, equally critical of Tiago Martins, video referee (VAR) of that match.
António Nobre sent off goalkeeper Diogo Costa and striker Francisco Conceição, both from FC Porto, and Bernardo Vital, Estoril Praia’s central defender, applying the same sanction after the final whistle to Luís Gonçalves, SAD administrator for the Blues and Whites. ‘.
Pinto da Costa appealed the decision determined by the FPF CD, in a week in which he ended a series of 15 mandates and 42 years at the head of FC Porto and gave way to André Villas-Boas, former coach of the Porto football team, against which lost the elections.
The inauguration ceremony for the club’s new governing bodies took place on Tuesday, but the transition of powers at SAD will take place on May 28, two days after the Portuguese Cup final, in which the ‘dragons’ face the newly national champion Sporting, at the Estádio Nacional, in Oeiras, and will try to win the trophy for the third consecutive edition.
On Tuesday, Pinto da Costa expressed his desire to symbolically follow this match on the FC Porto bench, despite the sanction imposed by the FPF CD affecting the technical areas of the stadiums and extending beyond the date of the Portuguese Cup final. Portugal.
As the full FPF CD maintained the 35-day punishment, Pinto da Costa will also be able to file a precautionary measure with the Court of Arbitration for Sports (TAD), which, if accepted, will allow him to be present on the pitch of the National Stadium in May 26th.
The meeting with Sporting will end FC Porto’s season and will mark Pinto da Costa’s departure from the presidency of SAD, a position he has held since 1997, the year in which that society was founded, which is responsible for managing ‘blue and white’ professional football. .
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