The TAS ruled that neither the LAFC attacker nor the FMF could compensate the Ko Cha Wolis club for a case it had already obtained an advantage from Real Sociedad
MEXICO. – The LAFC attacker, Carlos Vela, and the Mexican Football Federation (FMF), have won the lawsuit promoted by Ko Cha Wolis before the Court of Arbitration for Sports (TAS), which has finally resolved the case.
With this TAS resolution, the Cancun team has lost any opportunity to claim financial compensation from the FMF, Vela or any of the clubs where the 31-year-old attacker has played for training rights and solidarity mechanisms.
The notice to the affected parties, Ko Cha Wolis as plaintiff, and FMF and Vela as defendants, was delivered on Wednesday, February 3 and is final.
Sources with knowledge of the process in Switzerland assured ESPN that the TAS resolution was based on the requirement of “lack of passive credentials”, which means in other words that neither the Neither FMF nor Vela Garrido were part of the process initially promoted by Ko Cha Wolis a few years ago before the CAS, which at the time ordered the Royal Society to pay an amount of nearly 27 thousand Swiss francs. to the Cancun team for training rights and solidarity mechanisms, as Vela was founded in that club between the ages of 12 and 14.
Although Ko Cha Wolis won that first judgment in the TAS against the Real Sociedad, who settled the debt, this time the lawsuit turned out to be inadmissible because Vela and the FMF were not part of that first legal process, and this time The Spanish team also appeared. not as a defendant, but only as a witness.
This process costs Ko Cha Wolis an amount of more than 35 thousand Swiss francs for all this lost trial, as he not only pays the fees of the Court and the arbitrator concerned, but also has to pay the costs of the trial to both the Federation and Vela, his agent and his lawyer.
The award must be made public by the CAS within approximately one month, ESPN has been able to confirm.
The Regulations on the Statute and Transfer of FIFA Players define in Articles 20 and 21 the concepts of “Training Compensation” and “Solidarity Mechanism” as follows:
“Training fee is 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 up to the end of the season in which he turns 23. The obligation to pay a fee for training arises even if the transfer takes place during or at the end of the contract ”, states Article 20.
“If a professional player is transferred before his contract expires, the club or clubs that contributed to his education and training will receive a portion of the compensation paid to the previous club (solidarity contribution),” the Article 21 says.
By Ko Cha Wolis, assured nearby sources ESPN that the case has not been considered lost as there are still some legal bodies that can be exercised, which are being analyzed to reach a decision on the TAS ruling.