Africa-Press – Cape verde. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAD) of Portugal annulled the sanction of two games of punishment to Cape Verdean basketball player Ivan Almeida (Benfica), for having ordered FC Porto supporters to shut up following alleged racist insults.
At stake, according to the Portuguese newspaper A Bola, was an appeal filed by the Cape Verdean international during the title match against FC Porto, at Dragão Arena (Porto, Portugal), last June, in which the athlete, feeling -if discriminated against, he was expelled by ordering the rival supporters to shut up.
The judgment, revealed on the TAD website, stresses that the punishment had been applied by the Disciplinary Council of the Portuguese Basketball Federation without having been preceded by a hearing of the defendant, a principle enshrined in the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic, thus giving reason to the appeal presented by Ivan Almeida.
At the time, the Benfica winger denounced, through social media, having been the target of racist insults during the third game of the basketball championship final at Dragão Arena.
He even criticized the Portuguese Federation and the two clubs for not having commented on the offenses he suffered.
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