The Competition Committee of the Royal Aragonese Football Federation has sanctioned Víctor Lahoz Pérez
, a player for Alto De La Muela CF, from Segunda Regional B., with a three-year suspension
for attacking the referee of the match that last Sunday faced him with Peñaflor, a club from the rural Zaragoza neighborhood of the same name.
The game ended with a tie on the scoreboard and the La Muela team felt harmed by some arbitration decisions.
Once the match was over, several players from the visiting team approached the referee,
Daniel Lambea
, to protest, but Víctor Lahoz, the team's goalkeeper, went too far and, after strong protests, the referee issued the red card.
The goalkeeper's response was
to head him from behind
which knocked him to the ground, left him dizzy and caused a bump on the back of his head.
The Competition Committee justifies the
high and exemplary sanction
for "assaulting the referee, considering that there was a serious risk, given the nature of the action, requiring medical assistance and causing injury to the offended party."
In addition, it has imposed an economic sanction of 300 euros.
Before knowing the decision of the Federation, the club informed the player that it was not going to count on him for next year due to his action, arguing his "total rejection of violence."
According to sources from Alto De La Muela CF,
the player is "very sorry", apologized to the referee and has tried to contact him.
"He's bad, he's very annoyed, because he knows he was a hothead that he's going to regret all his life," the club's president, Mario Barriendos,
told Heraldo.es on Friday
.
He adds that "it is something that cannot be done no matter how much happens on the field, it has no justification and it annoys us because we have 35 years of history and nothing like this has ever happened to us".
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