The Barça defends to Messi and resorts to the Committee of Appeal

After the surprising decision of the Committee of Competition to keep him the unfair caution to Leo Messi after the party in front of the Seville FC, the Barça has taken letters in the subject. In a brief communiqué, the Barcelona entity has announced that will resort to the Committee of Appeal.

"The FC Barcelona will present a resource in front of the Committee of Appeal by the yellow that saw Leo Messi during the second half of the party played the Sunday in Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán after the Committee of Competition have decided to not to withdraw him the sanction to the Argentinian player, desestimando the allegations to the referee's record presented by the Club".

"It is necessary to remember that it sanctioned him with a yellow card for "delaying the exit of the terrain of game to put in order his equipment with the spirit to lose time", as it reflected the referee's record, after an entrance received by part of the sevillista N'Zonzi that had started him the boot", explains the communiqué. 

The Committee of Competition defends to the referee in front of Messi

Through a writing, the Committee sustained the past Wednesday that "the referee is the only sportive "authority and unappealable" in the technical order to direct the parties, by what is not possible to revoke a referee's decision invoking a discrepancy in the interpretation of the Rules of the Game or incidences of technical character on the future of the meeting, whose only "competition, exclusive and definite" corresponds to the referee".

Besides, they add that "the attentive vision of the proof videográfica contributed does not allow to conclude that concurra any of the two quoted suppositions, as we find us in definite in front of a different assessment by part of the club alegante of some determinate consistent facts literally in "Delaying the exit of the terrain of game to put in order his equipment".