The Disciplinary Commission of the Mediterranean Football League was to open, Wednesday, May 11, a disciplinary file on the regional 2 match between AC Arles and FC seventh which ended with a score of 22- 1.
by (with AFP)
A score of 22 goals to 1 at the final whistle, this is an unusual result in football! It is however the one on which on Sunday May 8, AC Arles and FC seventh, two amateur clubs evolving in Regional 2, the seventh level of hexagonal football.
The outcome of the match, which was part of the penultimate day of the championship, immediately aroused numerous reactions and created the controversy. To the point that the Mediterranean League, on which the two clubs depend, has seized the case and that its disciplinary committee was officially to open an investigation on Wednesday, May 11.
“I asked my services to open a disciplinary file of fraud suspicion with instruction,” said Tuesday at the France-Presse agency, Eric Borghini, the president of the League .
the climb to the upper level in play
The result of the meeting arouses all the more questions and suspicions it allowed the AC Arles to regain the head of the championship in front of FC Martigues, first place being synonymous with the rise Upper step, the regional 1.
Before this match, Martigues was a leader in front of Arles: the two teams were equal points, only department for the difference in goals (+3) favorable to Martigues.
According to several witnesses, the usual team of FC Septèmes was not on the field and played with its reserve team. Who herself was unable to align enough players, which led the coach as well as an educator over 50 years old to put on their crampons …
In Martigues, Alain Nersessian, the president does not hide his anger: “It is a real scandal. We are forced to ask questions and to question this result. Inevitably that we will look at This match in order to understand what could have led to this unimaginable score “.
” We wanted to finish the season without declaring “
“All week, Arles players worked to prepare for this decisive meeting in the final stretch of the championship, at the rate of four training sessions,” said the Arles club, in a press release published Monday May 9 and broadcast on its account Facebook . “The coach, Michel Estevan, particularly insisted on offensive work,” added the club to explain the extent of the score.
“Logic wanted us to take 30 or 40 goals,” said Salah Nasri, the president of FC Septèmes, in the daily La Provence on Monday. “We wanted to finish the season honorably, without declaring forfeit and thus keep the ethics of the championship,” he added about the composition of the team. “I would never have done this by knowing the noise that it was going to make. I would have agreed on a result that was not going to alert everyone”.
The decision of the disciplinary committee will be communicated after a procedure which will take place over several weeks. She should appoint a rapporteur responsible for investigating this match. He will hear the match referee, the delegate and club leaders.