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Valverde and Baena

FEDE VALVERDE LAWSUIT FILED

The reasons why Fede Valverde has been spared the penalty

Published:26/07/2023 - 13:32h

Updated:26/07/2023 - 13:32h

The Competition Committee closed the case against Federico Valverde and left him without sanction for the incident with Alex Baena. The Competition Committee believes that the decision of the Ordinary Justice prevails over the Sports Justice.

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The past 8 April, in the parking of Santiago Bernabéu, produced an incident between Federico Valverde and Alex Baena. Supposedly, the Uruguayan midfield player assaulted physically to the footballer of the Villarreal. However, the Committee of Competition has filed the file. The judge instructor of the file, Juan Antonio Landabarea, proposed a punishment of 5 parties that finally the player madridista will not fulfil because Competition accepts the allegations of the white club.

24 hours after the facts in the Bernabéu, Alex presented a complaint against Federico in front of the Police in a commissariat of Castellón. From the surroundings of 'pajarito', never denied the supposed aggression, but justified it alleging some grave words of Baena on the pregnancy of his woman months before like detonante of the punch. "It cries now that your son does not go to be born", is what purportedly said him Baena to Valverde in a party of Glass in January.

The court of instruction number 48 of Madrid, the past 3 July, filed and sobreseyó the complaint of Baena to Valverde when considering that "it does not result properly justified the perpetración of the crime that has given place to the training of the cause". When seeming, exist some inconsistencias in the statements of the player of the Villarreal regarding the recordings of the facts registered by the cameras of security of the stadium of the Real Madrid, that were decisive for this decision.

The role of the committee of competition of the RFEF in the case Valverde

The committee of competition, in his resolution, argued "the necessary subordination of the acts of the Administration of imposición of sanctions to the judicial authority, what determines that in case of collision between a performance jurisdiccional and another official on some same facts has to prevail the first", by what his pronouncement has to follow the dictated by the court.

Competition concluded that they give by concluded the process and, therefore, proceed to file the file. This archive will not have provisional character, since in case that they restarted the performances in penal road, in any supposed that it arrived to distinct conclusions on the facts produced, the file could go back to open in the supposed that the case have not prescribed.