Competition sanctions Jesús Owono with 12 games after his expulsion against Tenerife

The Disciplinary Committee of the Royal Spanish Football Federation has sanctioned Jesús Owono with a 12-game suspension for his expulsion in Tenerife-Andorra on November 2. The goalkeeper of the Andorran team saw a direct red card in the final stretch of the match after colliding with his raised leg on Jesús de Miguel when both were fighting for the ball. The Tenerife player collapsed and died the next day.

The resolution has come after the president of Andorra, Gerard Piqué, made a video on social networks asking the Federation to act in response to his club's ignorance of the sanctions of Owono himself, who was not going to play in Almería this Saturday having abandoned training, and his teammates Efe Akman and Lautaro de León. The first saw the fifth yellow card in the tragic duel against Tenerife and the second was sent off for a double warning. Events precipitated throughout the night of this Friday.

“The assessment of the conduct that is the subject of this file must be based on the aforementioned facts expressly recorded in the arbitration report, which states that the player was sent off for suddenly impacting with his raised leg on an opponent with the use of excessive force when the ball was in dispute,” the Committee indicates in its resolution.