Felipe Baloy, reduced his sentence on appeal

Coach of the Panamanian club Taurus FC and former Panamanian national team player Felipe Baloy will miss 10 of the 16 regular season matches of the Apertura 2024 tournament. Panama Football League (LPF)reported this Wednesday the Panama Football Federation (Fepafut).

In the press release of the Panamanian federation, it is pointed out that after a deep and exhaustive analysis, several elements ” Appeals Commission decided to partially accept the appeals submitted by the club Taurus FC“. on behalf of the coach Felipe Baloy and his assistant Wess Torres, “so the first-instance sanctions were changed.”

At first it was known that, however much Baloy and Torres, technical assistant Taurus FC They were suspended for 15 and 7 games respectively.

Baloyafter disposal of the appeal filed by Taurus FChe will have to serve an “8 game suspension and pay a fine of US$3,000”, while Torres will miss “five games and will have to pay another three thousand US dollars”.

The note adds that to those sanctioned matches they must add the two-match suspension that comes with the red card shown to both of them in the final match Closing of LPF in 2023 in which Tauro FC went down 3-0 against Club Atlético Independiente de La Chorrera (CAI).

Baloy, former captain of the Panamanian national team and champion with Taurus in 2017. This year, he spent his first season on the bench of the most trophy-winning Panama team with 16 titles.