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The Tendai Ndoro controversy finally draws to a close – It remains an appeal process to come – but Ajax Cape Town accepts its fate and will National First Division (NFD) campaign for the 2018-1919 season.
After six months of disciplinary hearings, appeals, arbitration hearings and numerous trials surrounding the eligibility of Zimbabwean Ndoro, it appears that the issue is Quietly Calm and the New PSL Season Cape Town General Manager Ari Efstathiou cut his head in a disappointed and visibly moving sentence and summed up the situation as follows: "The time and legal process have swept away on justice. "
In short, legal shenanigans left Ajax with no other choice. At the present time, Ajax is still 15th – according to the judgment of Judge Denise Fischer earlier this month – but, with the permission of the PSL on Thursday, the process paralyzed Cape Town. The appeal process could take between 6 and 12 weeks and, even if Ajax is victorious, the PSL could then bring it to the Supreme Court of Appeals.
In the meantime, with the league scheduled to start next week, where does it start from Ajax? They are a football club and they have to play football. For this reason, Efstathiou, together with his legal team, led by the lawyer Norman Arendse, decided that it was better that the club take its place within the NFD.
The fight will continue, Efstathiou was clear about it, because they still believe that they did everything according to the rules. But essentially, however, even if they win the case when the appeal will be brought to court in a few weeks, the verdict will be academic. In this regard, however, Ajax's ultimate goal is a justification of the position they have taken against the PSL.
? | #UrbanWarriors CEO Ari Efstathiou:
"Ajax Cape Town will be back, and we'll be back in the #AbsaPrem for the 2019-20 season." # NdoroGate #WeAreAjaxCT ? 1/3 pic.twitter.com/cF90UChKuM
– Ajax Cape Town (@ajaxcapetown)
July 27, 2018
Asked about the financial pressure that the legal fight has had on the club in recent months, Efstathiou asked: "Is this money?"
"When you believe in truth and justice, is it money? When you think you are right and you have done nothing wrong, when you have the whole Cape Town looking at you, when you have 120 kids in your academy wanting to play in the PSL, do you withhold money or do you spend on something you believe in? said we would fight all the way and we did it, to a point where we can no longer.We have been paralyzed by time and legal processes. "
" We still believe that we have done everything in our power to follow the rules of the league.We have never done anything outside the parameters of the rules.But, because of the difficulty of our situation, and the judicial procedures complicated, we had no choice but to accept that we will play in the NFD. "
According to Arendse, Judge Fischer 's decision Thursday to grant the PSL the appeal of his original judgment, to discount the award from arbitrator William Mokhari, was the stumbling block of the day. Ajax, to the extent that he made fighting very difficult
Efstathiou said that the club's top priority would be to bounce back very quickly.
"We have maintained our commitment to our supporters and to Cape Town," he said. "We said we will fight until the end – and we have done it.Unfortunately, time is against us – now we have to try to we will make our way through the NFD, there will be changes and financial implications, but we will strive to retaliate. "
Efstathiou also confirmed that Muhsin Ertugral will remain as head coach.
"Muhsin is engaged," said Efstathiou. "He's come to the end of last season so it's important that we have continuity, we'll have to transfer some of our best players to balance the books – and then we will also seek to strengthen the team with players who can do some work in the NFD.We will have to think carefully and make sure that we have the right balance in the team to achieve our goal of immediate promotion to the PSL. .
Weekend Argus
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