REAL AND ATLETICO
Fifa on Thursday dismissed appeals by Real Madrid and
Atletico Madrid against a ban on registering new players in the next two
transfer windows for irregularities in the signing of foreign players under 18.
Real and Atletico – last season's Champions League finalists
– were also fined 360 000 ($358 000) and 900 000 Swiss Francs
respectively.
However, the Spanish giants still have a final right of
appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
"The Fifa Appeal Committee has decided to reject the
appeals lodged by Spanish clubs Atletico de Madrid and Real Madrid and to
confirm in their entirety the decisions rendered by the Fifa Disciplinary
Committee in the respective cases relating to the protection of minors,"
Fifa said in a statement.
Both clubs were sanctioned in January, but by appealing had
temporarily held off the ban during the transfer window which closed last
month.
They will now not be able to register any new players in
either of the next two windows, in January 2017 and July-August 2017.
European champions Real responded by saying they will now go
to the CAS in an attempt to have the decision overturned "as quickly as
possible".
"The club regrets the decision on the ground that it is
profoundly unfair and contrary to the most elementary principles of penal
law," read a statement posted on their website.
"The club will begin the appropriate appeals procedure
before the Court of Arbitration for Sport, requesting that the decision be
completely overturned, with absolute confidence that said organisation will
come to an entirely favourable decision.
"Real Madrid C. F. will request that the procedure be
undertaken in an urgent manner in order to obtain a decision from the CAS as
quickly as possible."
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