The president of the Portuguese Rugby Federation (FPR) said this Friday that the Portuguese championship will effectively start on October 8, despite the precautionary measure presented by Technical to prevent the start of the competition.
It is clear that the season will proceed as planned. The clubs need to be calm, everything will go smoothly. We are prepared to react, as the case may be, with the absolute conviction that we are doing what we are supposed to do,” said Carlos Amado da Silva, at a press conference at the FPR headquarters.
The “engineers”, who were administratively demoted to the last national level, saw how the Sports Arbitration Court (TAD) annulled that decision of the Disciplinary Council (CD) and now they appealed to that instance to prevent the start of the competition before their reincorporation . . .
Amado da Silva, however, responded that the decision of the TAD “does not mean that the championship cannot start or that the Technician has sports fields”, and assumed that, if the TAD deems the Technician’s precautionary measure appropriate, the case will go “to the Central Administrative Court” of the South (TCAS).
It is a right that we have and we will certainly do it. Therefore, my guarantee that the championship will begin on October 8 is practically total, because we will appeal, of course, “said the federative leader.
The president of the FPR also stressed that “the clubs can be sure that none of those registered in the Division of Honor will be harmedand that he will do “everything” so that the championship begins on the 8th.
By our will, it will be so, without a doubt”, he said, emphatically, when asked directly if the competition will start on October 8, with the 10 planned clubs, regardless of the decision that comes from the TAD.
Amado da Silva also said that he had called on the press to react to “systematic communications with successive lies” by the Technician, to clarify “the reality of the facts”, and reserved criticism for TAD itself, “which did not analyze the situations” from a sports point of view and did not listen to “anyone” during the process.
The official said, however, that he is “sure” that the TAD will make a decision in favor of the FPR “in this second phase of the process” and guaranteed that the FPR will not “breach any judicial decision.” but he referred to “the superior interests of the modality” to defend the decision to proceed to the TCAS in case the decision of the TAD is favorable to the Technician.
The interests of the sport come before any type of decision of this type. We can understand that we should start the championship, if it is in the interest of the sport. It is our obligation to do everything to make this happen and, therefore, we will do everything”, concluded Amado da Silva.
On April 20, the FPR Disciplinary Board accepted a protest from the CDUL alleging that Technical had irregularly used nine players in the match between the two teams, on March 23, violating article 37, No. 1 a) of the Disciplinary Regulations.
Ten days later, on April 30, the FPR board decided to apply the decision of the CD, after receiving an appeal from the Technician, disqualifying the then national champions and relegating them to the last Portuguese competitive level.
A technician appealed to the FPR Justice Council, which on May 6 dismissed the appeal, in a ruling that also revealed that the ‘engineers’ had already appealed the decision to the TAD.
On August 18, according to information provided by Tecnico, the TAD annulled the decisions of the FPR board and its Disciplinary Council, but the body that supervises sport in Portugal announced, on the same day, that it had to appeal to the corresponding authorities. . superiors
Technical is one of the historical clubs of Portuguese rugby, founded in 1963.
Based in Olaias, the “engineers” have, in the absolute category, three national champion titles (1981, 1998 and 2021), four Portuguese Cups (1969, 1971, 1973 and 1994) and a Super Cup (1994).
Source: Observadora
