The three Estoril Praia supporters accused of intolerance towards FC Porto supporters are not allowed to enter the stadiums due to incidents during the meeting between the two clubs for the I Football League on 16 September.
In a statement Monday, the Authority for the Prevention and Combating Violence in Sport (APCVD) announced the decision taken last week, regarding the case of insulting a man, holding a child in his arms, both dressed in FC Porto, who will have been spat on while in a part of the bench intended for the fans of the host country.
“The three Estoril supporters identified by the GNR in relation to the incidents of the Estoril Praia-FC Porto match on September 16 have already been denied access to sports venues. The suspects were notified by the PSP to the APCVD -decree, which imposes a precautionary measure … prohibit access to sports grounds, and thus await the completion of the respective administrative infringement procedure”read in that note.
These three persons can be punished with fines between 1,000 and 10,000 euros and with a fine of up to two years for access to sports locations.
After the incident that took place at the Cascais site, and according to APCVD, the father and the child in the FC Porto shirt, victims of bigotry, remained on the same bench, albeit with the need to move them a few meters. to protect your physical integrity.
Child and father went on like this with their respective club’s jersey, welcomed by Estoril fans, who stood out and were outraged by the acts of intolerance that had taken place.
The next day, Estoril Praia regretted what had happened and condemned “all acts of violence of any kind”.
“We deeply regret the situation that the daughter of the FC Porto supporter has experienced in the António Coimbra da Mota stadium. We apologize and hope that she will never appreciate the true essence of sport. We condemn the attitude of those who unable to control their emotions and allow provocative attitudes of alleged football fans to become a deplorable moment of aggression that has no place in a football stadium,” the Cascais emblem statement reads.
Estoril Praia put an end to the note by making himself available “to continue to work with the appropriate authorities in seeking adequate solutions that could prevent episodes of this type from happening again at a sports venue”.
Earlier, the Secretary of State for Youth and Sports, João Paulo Correia, and the President of the Portuguese Professional Football League (LPFP), Pedro Proença, had dismissed this incident.
This child and the father were victims of intolerable bigotry from a group of supporters of the opposing side.
Such incidents cannot take place in our stadiums. Nor do we accept attempts to normalize intolerance in sports. https://t.co/eF8sKDJod6— João Paulo Correia (@jpcorreia_sejd) September 18, 2022
This was the second time in a week that both the Secretary of State for Youth and Sport and the LPFP chairman deplored incidents involving supporters in I Liga stadiums.
On September 10, a child had to take off a Benfica jersey at the Famalicão stadium as he sat on a bench with his father with a majority of local fans.
Source: DN
