Boca must pay a fine of 100 thousand dollars for racist acts

One year after the unfortunate actions of the fans of Mouth in the meeting with corinthians for the round of 16 Libertadores Cup 2022he tas ruled against the xeneize and did not give space to the appeal of the Argentine club.

The club chaired by Jorge Amor Ameal He had asked that they not be punished for the racist acts that some of the fans committed in the matches against corinthians. Without space to that request, the final resolution is that Mouth must pay 100 thousand dollars for the actions of those fans.

What was the specific situation?

For the round of 16 match, Boca faced corinthians and the set of the riverside he had already received a fine and a warning for racist acts by fans Xeneizes on his visit to Brazil.

Following this, in the second leg in Buenos Aires, the action of the Argentine fans was repeated a week later. In this way, the Disciplinary Unit issued a new ruling fining Mouth for 100 thousand dollars, but did not punish with the total closure of the Bombonerahow could it have happened.

Although the amount of 100 thousand dollars of the fine is very high and was added to the 30 thousand that had already been applied to him for the discriminatory gestures in the party in Saint Paul, the great fear is Mouth at that time it was that Conmebol sanctioned him with the closure of the stadium.

The fear of Mouth surgery for what is dictated by article 17 of the Disciplinary Code: “impose the sanction of playing one or more games behind closed doors or the partial closure of the stadium”, to clubs whose fans “insult or violate the human dignity of another person or group of people, by any means, for reasons of color of skin, race, sex or sexual orientation, ethnicity, language, creed or origin”.

In any case, despite this Mouth the only sanction he received was economically despite the appeal to the tas for the racist acts of Argentine fans against Brazilians.