OFFICIAL! Appeal maintains the sanction to Xavi who will not be against Las Palmas or Cadiz

As it expected , the Committee of Appeal has confirmed this Wednesday the sanction of two parties to Xavi Hernández. Like this, the trainer of the FC Barcelona will have to fulfil yes or yes the punishment imposed by the Committee of Discipline of the Spanish Federation of Football (RFEF). Therefore, the technician of Terrassa will not be able to be in the bench in the parties of LaLiga against The Palms, home, and like visitor in front of the Cádiz.

The Barcelona team finally has not been able to diminish or delete directly the sanction to his trainer, something that treated with a resource in which it explained the existence in a self-evident material error of the record of the referee of the party José María Sánchez Martínez, circumstance that Appeal does not appreciate in sight of the proofs presented by the Barcelona club. Óscar Hernández, brother and assistant of Xavi, will be the attendant to direct to the Barça in the pair of meetings already mentioned.

The Barça could not 'convince' to the Committee

It fits to remember that Sánchez Martínez expelled to Xavi in the Metropolitan, according to the record, "for making observations of technical character to one of my decisions, voice in cry, making gestures of desconsideración and after having been warned previously by the fourth referee". Competition sanctioned with two parties and 600 euros of the fine to the technician without attending the allegations to the record of the Barça, that protected in this self-evident material error of the record, since according to the opinion of the Barcelona club, neither shouted neither did gestures of desconsideración to the fourth referee.