The Concacaf authorized Canada coach, Jesse Marsch, of any reprehensible act, but sentenced Canada football to a fine for incidents during the Gold Cup opening match in Canada last week in Vancouver.
Marsch missed the first two games of the tournament, serving a ban born from having presented itself to a red card in March in the third place match of the League of Concacaf Nations. He watched Canada 6-0 win against Honduras n ° 75 on June 17 with other team officials from a sequel to the BC stadium in Vancouver.
After the match, the Concacaf announced that its disciplinary committee had initiated disciplinary procedures for football in Marsch and Canada to see if they had “ignored the regulations applicable to those responsible for the suspended match and used an offensive language for those responsible for the Concacaf match”.
Late Monday, the Concacaf made its decision.
The disciplinary committee has inflicted a fine on Canada football an undisclosed amount “to vioder the security protocols for the managers of the accredited delegation and not to comply with the anti-doping procedures by not providing the required representative for the print of the control of the half-time doping”.
“In addition, the disciplinary committee found no clear evidence that Jesse Marsch did not take into account the rules of the competition concerning the officials of the suspended match, therefore, it was authorized for any reprehensible act,” added Concacaf.
Marsch had seemed optimistic on the subject earlier on Monday.
“The dialogue has been positive,” he said about Concacaf. “And I think that more than anything, it was a misunderstanding in some respects. I think we are all ready to go ahead.”
In its decision, the Concacaf also threw a branch of Olivier in Canada football saying that it “recognizes the constructive commitment of the CSA (Canada Football Association) in the investigation of the disciplinary committee”.
The two fines involved minor offenses.
The problem of accreditation occurred when a member of the football staff of Canada took badly and had to be replaced in the match. The identification information of their replacement failed to check after the match.
Canada football had already apologized for the error.
The question of doping concerned the calendar of a Canadian official in the draw in the middle of the game to decide which players would be tested in terms of drugs. Due to a misunderstanding, the Canadian representative was on site for the draw itself, which was planned as planned, but not for a previous rally (as was the procedure in Copa America from last summer).
Canada, ranked 30th in the world, faces n ° 81 El Salvador in its last game B match on Tuesday in Houston.
