Referee handing over money he received during a match in Guatemalan football

It happened in the First Division of Guatemalan football and the case will not be investigated by the authorities

GUATEMALA – The Disciplinary Body of the First Division League of Guatemalan football will not investigate the case of ‘gifts’ that a stranger wanted to deliver to a referee quartet after a match in that league, the second most important in local football.

The body did not rule in its resolution and the case will remain only for the records, although it could be a recurring act that threatens the ‘fair play’ in Guatemalan football.

He was the commissioner Álvaro Morán and the referee Jeroni Coc, Along with his assistants Julio Pérez and Nery Torres and fourth referee Braulio Sol, who decided to set an example of honesty and transparency in denouncing the fact.

“When we were inside the dressing room together with the referee quartet (…) an unidentified person entered and in the presence of the referee quartet he addressed my person and in my diary he used for the notes to place the exact thousand quetzals amount alleging that it was for the payment of the hotel to the arbitration team and my person saying that he delivered it without any commitment acquired with him neither before during nor after the meeting (sic) “, reads the report of the commissioner to whom he had access ESPN Digital.

“He was told that it was not right and that he would please receive the cash again and that we should accept only our fees and per diems by refusing to receive it and withdrawing from the dressing room. receive cash by attaching it to my report and I deliver the exact thousand quetzals amount in denomination of 10 notes of 100 quetzals each “, concludes the story of Mr. Alvaro Morán.

It happened in the stage the Cuchumatanes, in the encounter of Xinabajul-Huehue in front of San Pedro (2-0), played last Sunday.

The Disciplinary Body of the First Division only knew the own incidences of the game and fined the Xinabajul-Huehue with 10,750 quetzals because he became interested in the stands, without this being allowed by the sanitary dispositions that prevail in the country.

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