Fábio Veríssimo files complaint against FC Porto for false accusation | OneFootball

Fábio Veríssimo filed a disciplinary complaint against FC Porto, which led to the opening of a case against the Dragons, as reported yesterday by Record.

The complaint is related to the allegations made by the Porto club regarding the visit to Arouca, in connection with the 7th round of the Primeira Liga, which the Disciplinary Council ultimately dismissed. Following this dismissal, the AF Leiria referee filed a counter-claim against FC Porto for slanderous denunciation.

The disciplinary framework invoked refers to Article 112-A, which states: “A club that, by any means, before any body of Liga Portugal, the FPF, public authority or criminal police body, denounces, with knowledge of the falsity of the accusation, the commission by a sports agent of a disciplinary, criminal, civil, administrative offense or other, shall be punished with a fine set between a minimum of 25 UC and a maximum of 250 UC.” Thus, the payment of a fine between 2,550 euros and 25,500 euros may be at stake.

Regarding the original case, it concerns the match in Arouca in which FC Porto, also following the game against Sp. Braga marked by the ‘television case’, claimed that the referee “threatened club officials with expulsions and other forms of intimidation”, threats that, according to the club, “were later carried out” in the match against the Arsenalistas, in which Fábio Veríssimo expelled Henrique Monteiro, executive manager and regular delegate at the Dragons’ games.

In the game in Arouca, the Porto side accused the referee of saying “Come back Engineer [Luís Gonçalves], you’re forgiven” to Henrique Monteiro, Tiago Madureira, and Bertino Miranda, as well as stating that the first “would only learn when he was expelled”, needing “to be expelled at least once or twice”. The Committee of Instructors did not consider the blue and white allegations to be proven nor did it recognize a causal relationship between these statements and the subsequent expulsion of Henrique Monteiro against Sp. Braga, deciding to dismiss the case.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇵🇹 here.