Africa-Press – Tanzania. Finally the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has issued its decision in the arbitration procedure between the Tanzanian football club Young Africans Sports Club and the Ghanaian football player Bernard Morrison who moved to anothe Tanzanian club, Simba SC.
After deliberation, CAS has decided to dismiss the appeal and confirmed the challenged decision in its entirety.
“Bernard Morrison in relation to the decision issued on 12 August 2020 by the legal and players’ Status committee of the Tanzania Football Federation (the challenged decision),” CAS statement issued Monday stated.
In such decision, Bernard Morrison’s term with Young Africans Sports Club was deemed to have concluded at the end of his first contract on the 14 July, 2020, CAS statement said.
“A seconddisputed, contract was deemed to have not been entered into by Bernard Morrison and he was ordered to repay the amount of USD 30,000 paid to him by Young Africans Sports Club in relation to the disputed second contract,” it added.
Young African Sports Club challenged such decisions at the CAS.
The Club requested that the validity of the second contract be affirmed and that Bernard Morrison be ordered to pay and indemnity of USD 200’000 to the Club for breach of contract
The CAS Panel heard
the parties by video-conference on 29 July 2021.
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