FC Porto members launch petition to expel Ricardo Costa | OneFootball

A group of FC Porto members has launched a petition with the aim of expelling Ricardo Costa, Sporting’s handball coach, from membership of the blue-and-white club. The initiative is based on article 32 of FC Porto’s statutes and comes in the wake of the statements made by the Sporting coach after Sporting beat Poland’s Wisla Plock 33-29 on Thursday in the first leg of the Champions League handball play-off for a place in the quarter-finals.

The censurable actions or omissions of members that harm the Club’s good name, prestige and interests are subject to disciplinary punishment, namely:

a) disrespecting the Statutes, the Club’s regulations or the resolutions of its governing bodies;

b) insulting, defaming or in any other way offending the Club’s governing bodies or any of their members, delegates, representatives or employees, in the exercise of their duties or outside them but because of them;

c) acting against the Club’s governing bodies or, in any way, preventing the normal and legitimate exercise of their duties;

d) displaying bad moral or civic conduct during sporting competitions or because of them;

e) committing acts or contributing to their commission by other persons, as well as concealing such acts by other persons, from which moral or material damage to the club arises.

After that match, played on Thursday, the coach said he “does not deal well with attacks on his integrity”, days after the controversy erupted before the clássico at the Dragão Arena. Ricardo Costa and Christian Moga, the green-and-whites’ pivot, had to receive medical assistance due to an alleged intense and toxic smell in the dressing room. The case has generated major controversy and has already led to Frederico Varandas and André Villas-Boas being received by the Minister for Culture, Youth and Sport, Margarida Balseiro Lopes.

In disciplinary terms, the following article of FC Porto’s statutes provides for four possibilities: warning, formal reprimand, suspension and expulsion.

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