{"id":13659,"date":"2024-01-24T21:03:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T21:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/were-right-to-ban-man-city-from-champions-league-uefa-president-ceferin\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T21:03:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T21:03:10","slug":"were-right-to-ban-man-city-from-champions-league-uefa-president-ceferin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/were-right-to-ban-man-city-from-champions-league-uefa-president-ceferin\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re right to ban Man City from Champions League\u2019 \u2013 UEFA President Ceferin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has said their decision to ban Manchester City from all European competitions for two years in 2020 was correct.<\/p>\n<p>The ban was eventually overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2020, UEFA\u2019s Club Financial Control Body found City guilty of a breach of Financial Fair Play, FFP, rules.<\/p>\n<p>The Premier League champions had been accused of falsely inflating sponsorship revenues between 2012 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p>UEFA slammed a two-year ban and a \u20ac30 million fine on the club.<\/p>\n<p>But in July 2020, CAS overturned the ban and reduced the fine to \u20ac10 million.<\/p>\n<p>Ceferin insists UEFA were right to sanction City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know we were right. We wouldn\u2019t decide if we didn\u2019t think we were right,\u201d he told The Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a trial lawyer for 25 years, I know that, sometimes, you win a case that you are sure you will lose.<\/p>\n<p>And, sometimes, you lose a case when you\u2019re sure\u2026 You just simply have to respect, in a serious democracy, the decision of the court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to speak about the case in England. But I trust that the decision of our independent body was correct. I didn\u2019t enter into this decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We\u2019re right to ban Man City from Champions League\u2019 \u2013 UEFA President Ceferin<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has said their decision to ban Manchester City from all European competitions for two years in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9501,1725,1031,15,160,2543],"tags":[9502,1150,1033,1145,202,180,201,2548],"class_list":["post-13659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ceferin","category-champions-league","category-man-city","category-news","category-sport","category-uefa","tag-ceferin","tag-champions","tag-city","tag-league","tag-man","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-uefa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - 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