TAS has ruled that neither the LAFC striker nor FMF should compensate Ko Cha Wolis for a case from which they have already benefited from Real Sociedad
MEXICO CITY.- LAFC striker, Carlos Vela and the Mexican Football Federation (FMF) won the lawsuit filed by Ko Cha Wolis before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS), which eventually resolved the issue.
With this TAS resolution, the Cancun team lost any opportunity to seek financial compensation from FMF, Vela or any of the clubs where the 31-year-old striker played for training rights and solidarity mechanisms.
The notice to the parties involved, Ko Cha Wolis as plaintiff and FMF and Vela as defendants, was sent on Wednesday, 3 February, and is final.
Sources with knowledge of the process in Switzerland are provided ESPN that the TAS resolution was based on the precept of ‘lack of passive legitimacy’, which, in other words, means that neither Neither FMF nor Vela Garrido were part of the trial in the first instance promoted by Ko Cha Wolis a few years ago before CAS, which at the time ordered the Royal Society to pay a sum of almost 27 thousand Swiss francs to the Cancun team for training rights and solidarity mechanisms, as Vela trained at that club between the ages of 12 and 14.
Although Ko Cha Wolis won that first ruling in TAS against Real Sociedad, which settled the debt, this time the lawsuit proved inadmissible, as Vela and FMF were not part of the first legal process, and this time the Spanish team did not. he presented himself not as a defendant, but only as a witness.
This process will cost Ko Cha Wolis a sum of more than 35 thousand Swiss francs for this whole lost trial, because he not only pays the fees of the Court and the arbitrator involved, but also has to pay the costs of the trial to both the Federation and his agent Vela or.
The prize must be notified publicly by CAS within approximately one month, ESPN could confirm.
The FIFA Rules on the Status and Transfer of Players set out in Articles 20 and 21 the concepts of “Training Compensation” and “Solidarity Mechanism”, as follows:
“The training compensation will be paid to a player’s training club or clubs: 1) when the player signs his first professional contract and 2) for each transfer of the professional player until the end of the season in which he turns 23 years old. The obligation to pay compensation for training arises even if the transfer is made during or at the end of the contract “, Article 20 states.
“If a professional player is transferred before the expiry of his contract, the club or clubs that contributed to his education and training will receive part of the compensation paid to the previous club (solidarity contribution),” says Article 21.
Of Ko Cha Wolis, close sources assured ESPN that the case was not considered lost, as there are still a number of legal courts that can be exercised, which are being considered to take a decision on the CAS judgment.