Jesús Owono suspension after Jesús de Miguel incident, Digi Mart USA News: The Disciplinary Committee of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has suspended Andorra goalkeeper Jesús Owono for 12 matches over an incident during a match against Tenerife in which Tenerife forward Jesús de Miguel was gravely injured and later died.
The incident took place on November 2 during the match between the two clubs. Owono was shown a straight red card after striking his opponent with a raised leg in a challenge for the ball.
According to the match referee, Manuel Ángel Pérez Hernández, Owono used excessive force, and De Miguel died the following day.
The committee applied Article 102 of the RFEF Disciplinary Code, which provides for bans of four to 12 matches for violent conduct during play that causes harmful consequences or serious injury. The federation imposed the maximum penalty under that article, and said the public and widely known consequences of the action were taken into account in setting the length of the suspension.
The committee said the referee’s report was the only document in the disciplinary file, so its decision was based on that content. The decision follows an earlier postponement of the case.
The Tenerife–Andorra match was stopped in its final minutes and later ended in a 2–2 draw, and Andorra resumed training the Monday after De Miguel’s death. The club has ten working days to file an appeal with the RFEF Appeals Committee.
