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The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled Thursday that Sevilla FC acted “properly” with French player Joris Gnagnon, by dismissing him for failure to maintain “an appropriate weight for the competition,” despite the fact that the club demanded “seriousness and rigor for his profession,” according to a club statement.
“The CAS has issued an award confirming the dismissal of the player Joris Gnagnon due to the failure to maintain an appropriate weight for the competition as the main cause. This Court has given the reason to Sevilla in the procedure used with the player, behaving appropriately and requiring the player seriousness and rigor for his profession,” said the Sevilla entity.
The club signed the French defender in July 2018, agreeing a contract for five seasons. Only a year later, he returned to Stade Rennais on loan and in 2020-2021 he rejoined the nervionense discipline, which did not find a way out for him, so he barely had half an hour of play throughout that course. Finally, Sevilla dismissed him the following season because he was “seriously overweight”.
The player “did not correct” this problem “despite four disciplinary proceedings” brought by the club, which provided him with “prescriptions and advice from the medical and nutrition services”, which he also failed to comply with “all of them on his own initiative and, therefore, ended up being dismissed”.
Gnagnon appealed to the Spanish courts, and appealed to FIFA, which rejected his claim, and finally went to CAS, which now found in favor of Sevilla, “as to the just cause for dismissal”. The Court alleged “the evidence constituted by the four disciplinary files and the testimonial statements of the process”. “The professionalism of Sevilla FC, endorsed by the court in the sentence, was exemplary and remains completely immaculate, also setting an important jurisprudence for future and similar cases,” said the club in its statement.
Thus, the player was ordered to pay the arbitration costs, as well as to assume part of the club’s legal costs, Sevilla said. “It is considered a precedent that benefits the position of clubs in Europe when it comes to managing similar situations, which until now seemed impossible to solve,” the statement concluded.