The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has ratified the injustice that not only affects three clubs in the current "Liga de Expansion," but also harms the entire system and football development. The abolition of promotion and relegation could not be overturned by the international court recognized by FIFA and seemingly independent. There is no possibility or instance left. We will have to wait for those six tournaments to pass and hope - and cross our fingers - that club owners do not meet again and decide to change, once again, the regulations of their own game. That's how they operate. We expected justice in Switzerland. Instead, we received the ratification of an injustice.
SAN DIEGO, California.- Promotion and relegation also died in Lausanne. The CAS has decided to side with the Mexican Football Federation. What a shame. It was the last hope to reverse an injustice.
Correcaminos, U. de G., and Venados had filed a protest that seemed to have a legitimate chance of a positive resolution for them and for the sake of justice and sports development in Mexican football. The CAS lawyers have sided with the federation's decisions backed by the FMF regulations and the economic needs of the Liga and the current times - the pandemic we are living in. The three clubs currently playing in the so-called "Liga de Expansion" not only lose against the CAS, but they also have to pay the FMF for the legal expenses incurred in the lawsuit.
The questions here are: Did the FMF win? Did Correcaminos, U. de G., and Yucatan lose? The only reality is that Mexican football is the one that has been hurt after abolishing promotion and relegation for at least six seasons and while they - according to them - find a way to reorganize and establish the new foundations of a league that promotes again the sporting right of a team to reach the highest category.
We would need to know more details about the process. At some point, justice - leaving football matters aside - seemed to support the protesting clubs. The damage that was caused in Toluca was confirmed in Swiss territory. Ultimately, the influence and power of an entire football entity carried weight, claiming economic unsustainability. The global football economic situation did not help in this matter.
The leaders have promised that promotion and relegation will return in the near future. The problem is that tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, they can meet, vote, and decide on another change - or injustice - to the regulations. They are the ones who ultimately establish and modify the rules of the game, "their game"...
Nobody, not even the CAS, has been able to understand or quantify the damage caused to Mexican football by the decision promoted by a few club owners - not all of them fortunately thinking that way. The issue continues to be purely economic, for which none of those minds - football owners - have had the ability to find another direction, a different solution that doesn't involve violating the game and the field.