While Deportes Tolima continues to congratulate the transfer of Jaminton Campaz to Gremio de Brasil, the leading team that also left around 4 million dollars in the coffers, bad news came to darken the atmosphere.
It is about the legal conflict that he maintains with the player Carlos Torres, who alleged breach of the club’s obligations and went free to Croatian football, specifically HNK Šibenik, of the first division of that country.
The extreme, only 18 years old, landed in those distant lands last February and Tolima, who could not do anything at the time to retain him, decided to denounce him and demand a compensation of 2 million euros from him and the Croatian club, jointly and severally. . A similar amount for an unfulfilled contract that, according to the Ibagué club’s own account, was 37 million Colombian pesos? This is what the maximum shareholder, Gabriel Camargo, calculates that the act of rebellion of his promise can cost him.
Tolima went to the FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber in Switzerland to demand that millionaire payment, claiming “unjustified breach of the contract”, but he found a ruling totally against his interests.
The court, made up of a French, a Dutch and a Russian was forceful: “With respect to a labor dispute against the player Carlos Torres Góngora, the claim of the plaintiff, Deportes Tolima, is rejected,” the ruling reads. The costs of the process, of course, must be paid from Ibagué.
However, the plaintiff still has one more letter: Tolima’s lawyer has requested the legal grounds for the decision from FIFA and has announced an appeal, for which he will have 21 days. The first ruling is already an indicator, but the Tolima team will exhaust all instances to avoid a disciplinary process in Colombia, which imposes serious measures, such as those that threatened Nacional in its lawsuit against Cortuluá. For now, Torres continues to live his European dream in Croatia without looking back.
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