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Originally Posted by shermanator
Just in time for the first game, the verdict on the racism allegations is out. If I understand this correctly, which I don't, there wasn't enough evidence to convict Reynders, as thus he is cleared of wrongdoing?
https://legacy.canadasoccer.com/stat...-1&language=en |
In other words, the CSA didn't want to touch it from the start, was forced to, made a decision after much internal debate after 12 weeks and made sure the club was in lockstep and agreed with decision and the coach was stepping down post season.
Someone then put in some half assed appealed after the season (or was the season done yet?). Appeal took less time then the original investigation, and quietly in the middle of the offseason, the ruling was simply over turned.
Someone then realized that the appeal of overturning was initiated or arrived at far too casually, or onesided that it didn't pass even the faintest of smell tests, and/or, probably more likely, someone on the CSA board owed someone a favour on the Ethics in Sports board, because that body took (and billed someone) 9 months to look into the 6 week appeal after the 12 week original investigation.
So, after 65 weeks or so since the original incident, the CSA has hopes this has been finally swept under the rug, after a tepid response that has zero conviction behind it.
Of course besides the very troubling allegations which really haven't been properly addressed, it goes to show first hand, the extreme bureaucratic nature and shocking inefficiency of the sport's governing body, for an issue like this to take over 14 months to come to an inconclusive, confusing ending.
It's why soccer in this country is in the state it's in for the last 3 decades or more..