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Kerala Blasters’ walked off the sphere after a hotly disputed objective scored by Bengaluru FC from a free-kick gave the Karnataka-based workforce the lead. Head coach Ivan Vukomanovic, who was accused of instigating the workforce for discontinuing the encounter, has been penalised with a 10-match ban
The Disciplinary Committee of the All India Football Federation on Friday imposed a high quality of Rs Four crore on Kerala Blasters FC for strolling off the pitch and thereby forfeiting their Hero Indian Super League (ISL) playoff match in opposition to Bengaluru FC.
The AIFF Disciplinary Committee, after listening to all events concerned within the match and contemplating their protests and submissions, stated that Kerala Blasters are “additionally directed to problem a ‘Public Apology’ for this unsporting conduct of abandoning the match, failing which the entire Fine to be imposed on the defendant workforce will probably be elevated to Rs. Six crore”.
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The disciplinary committee meeting, chaired by Mr. Vaibhav Gaggar, held Kerala Blasters for the incidents that happened at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru on March 3, 2023.
Kerala Blasters head coach Ivan Vukomanovic, who was accused of the offence of abandonment and bringing the game into disrepute, and apparently instigating the team for discontinuing the encounter, has been penalised “with a 10-match ban/suspension from AIFF held tournaments irrespective of whichever team he is contracted with, along with a fine of Rs Five lakh under Article 9.1.2 (of the AIFF disciplinary code).”
The Disciplinary Committee additional said, “This would essentially imply that the Head Coach shall not be permitted to be part of the workforce dressing room and/or the workforce bench as per Article 9.1.6, the AIFF knowledgeable in a press release on its web site.
“The Head Coach can also be directed to problem a ‘Public Apology’ for his misconduct, failing which the entire high quality to be imposed on the Head Coach will probably be elevated to Rs. 10 lakh together with the aforementioned ban/suspension for 10 matches and from being part of the workforce dressing room and workforce bench, regardless of the workforce he’s contracted with.”
The Committee has directed both Kerala Blasters and Vukomanovic to comply with this order within one week. However, Kerala Blasters and their Head Coach have the right to file an appeal against the Order.
The Committee also noted that “abandonment of a game is one of the rarest occurrences in global sporting history, especially in Football. In India, this is only the second time in professional football recorded history that a team has abandoned a match. The only other time such an act occurred was in the match of East Bengal vs Mohun Bagan on 09.12.2012.
“In that match, Mohun Bagan was a goal down against bitter rivals East Bengal in Kolkata when a stone hurled from one of the stands hit midfielder, Syed Rahim Nabi. The match resumed after a 13-minute stoppage towards the end of the first half, but Mohun Bagan refused to take the field after the interval as the midfielder Nabi was treated for a fractured jaw and Mohun Bagan players still felt insecure and in danger.
“Despite having such a probable cause of abandoning the match, Mohun Bagan were stripped of all the 12 points they had earned in the league and were fined Rs Two crore,” the committee noticed.
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