Uefa investigation Josep Guardiola because T-Shirt – SPIEGEL ONLINE

The sports journalist Jorge López Topo has become only 38 years old. He died in a car accident in São Paulo, where he wanted to talk about the semi-finals in his home country Argentina against the Netherlands. What exactly happened is still not clear, his wife Veronica Brunati been trying for months to elucidate the exact circumstances of the accident.

Many celebrities from the sports have been publicly declared solidarity with Brunatis fight, and the rest, Lionel Messi Atlético coach Diego Simeone. There should be no one who knew of this request to complain about anything.

If it were not for the Article 11, paragraph 2, of the Code would Uefa. Then are “expressions of non-sporting nature committed through Uefa events” prohibited. And because Bayern coach Josep Guardiola on the eve of the Champions League quarter-finals with a t-shirt out against FC Porto in the “Justice for Topo” was called, is now investigating him. He had used “a sporting event for a non-sporting manifestation.”

Formal may all have his accuracy, but would like you can not imagine those pedants in the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, the images of the Guardiola- Press Conference looks and has nothing more urgent than to bring the vile rules against a human gesture in position.

Instead of silently over it sure that such an appearance is perhaps not quite in conformity with the Statutes, the entire bureaucracy is booted. Witnesses are likely to be asked, filled files. The Control and Disciplinary Commission will deal with the “case”. Do the men and women to do nothing more important? Probably not.

The sport must not let himself be exploited for the policy that is the mantra of the officials. Why must also bear no mourning in memory of the dead from the Maidan Ukrainian athletes at the Winter Games in Sochi, which also violates any paragraph from the depths of the IOC’s catechism. Only when one of the veteran functionaries of IOC, Fifa or Uefa dies, then there can be no memorial minutes is enough.

At the end of Guardiola is likely to be occupied for wearing his T-shirt with a fine. One can only hope that this money Veronica Brunati is provided to you.