Lucas Paquetá, the Brazilian player who is investigated by the Football Association (FA) on an alleged issue of match-fixing, he reacted.
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Paquetá is being investigated because, apparently, he had intentionally gotten himself cautioned in four of his team’s games, the <a href="https://www.archysport.com/2022/01/live-the-football-transfer-window-lucas-digne-officially-commits-to-aston-villa/" title="LIVE – The football transfer window: Lucas Digne officially commits to Aston Villa“>West Ham: against Leicester, in 2022, and three more games in 2023, against Aston Villa, Leeds United y Bournemouth.
Your defense
According to the English media Mail Sport, the FA is asking for a lifetime ban for the footballer, Paquetá, but until now his reaction was unknown.
The FA asked Paquetá to hand over his cell phone. Then they returned it, but some time later they asked for it again. The aggravating factor was that the footballer said he had thrown the device in the trash, it was said.
Due to the above, because of this, the FA filed a second complaint against him, now, for obstruction of justice, and for this reason they asked that he be sanctioned for life.
“I am frustrated and upset to have recently read misleading and inaccurate press articles, published in both England and Brazil, which claim to reveal information about my case. “Some of that information is completely false and appears designed to undermine my position,” Paquetá said in a statement.
He added: “I am also concerned that, although false and misleading, these articles clearly come from a person close to the case. The FA procedures are supposed to be confidential and are extremely serious for me and my family. “The continued leaking and publication of inaccurate information in the press is jeopardizing my chances of receiving a fair hearing.”
Finally, he said: “I have therefore instructed my lawyers to write to the FA to request that they carry out a thorough investigation into how information about the case, even if inaccurate, is entering the public domain. “I continue to deny the charges against me and hope to prove my innocence.”
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