Seven games instead of seven months: The DFB Federal Court has significantly reduced the penalty for Aue professional Clemens Fandrich (30) in the oral appeal hearing.
The court sentenced the FC Erzgebirge midfielder to a suspension of seven championship games for gross unsportsmanlike conduct against the assistant referee. So Fandrich has to watch until the end of the year and is eligible to play again in January.
Fandrich after the negotiation marathon: “You don’t need something like that very often in life. After six hours of negotiation, you have a headache. The big shock of seven months that stood as a lock in the room is gone. ”
Oskar Riedmeyer, who, as the deputy chairman of the DFB Federal Court, headed the session on Thursday, said of the verdict: “We are convinced that Clemens Fandrich yelled at assistant referee Roman Potemkin so vehemently that he saliva the assistant referee Has hit the face. But there were final doubts as to whether he actually wanted to spit in Mr. Potemkin’s face on purpose. “
Fandrich was initially banned for seven months by the DFB sports court on November 4th. The committee had no doubts about the portrayal of Potemkins, who stated that the Aue professional spat on his right eye in the home game against FC Ingolstadt on October 22nd.
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FC Erzgebirge and Fandrich, who vehemently denied the accusation of spitting on, appealed the judgment and hoped for an acquittal.
FCE lawyer Kay Werner: “What I look at with a bit of tears is the fact that Clemens was convicted of gross unsportsmanlike conduct, even though the two referees testified that, from their point of view, a yellow card would have been the appropriate punishment . Nevertheless, the joy and relief prevail that the very difficult judgment of the first instance was changed in favor of Clemens. “
On November 4, the sports court had no doubts about the representation of the referee assistant in its decision. Fandrich was therefore severely punished for gross unsportsmanlike conduct. Potemkin had testified that Fandrich spat on his right eye in the 89th minute. The player himself denied the allegation.
Fandrich has already missed two games: the 1-1 in Hanover and the 2-0 against Heidenheim. He will be absent from five other games due to the suspension: in Rostock (November 20th), against Darmstadt (November 27th), at Werder (December 3rd), against Dresden (December 12th) and in Nuremberg (December 18th). So in the end there will only be a two month ban instead of seven …
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