After the spitting at Avi Rikan last Monday, Hapoel Beer Sheva star Joshua appeared in the Football Association’s court together with the Maccabi Tel Aviv connection. The hearing in the two cases lasted more than an hour, and despite the Reds’ attorney general’s claim that Joshua could not be prosecuted, it was decided to continue. The decision in his case will be made tomorrow (Thursday).
So what was in the discussion? Joshua first claimed: “In general I wiped sweat with my hand, I did not try to spit. The movement I made is a ‘tap’ movement of spitting.” The judge asked, “So why didn’t he spit on the floor but at the actor?”, And the contact did not answer. Avi Rikan claimed: “I felt the spit” while Hapoel B’Shlosha’s legal adviser attacked the Maccabi Tel Aviv contact and said: “You are a provocateur.”
In addition, the ombudsman explained that Joshua should not be prosecuted because the VAR judges did not at all identify that Joshua was spitting on Avi Rikan, but the explanation, as stated, was not accepted by the judges. The VAR did not identify The spitting motion because they did not have the right angle that the sports channel had and according to that angle it was decided to prosecute him.
The court expects that the association’s court will not remove the Portuguese, and they claim that the player’s version, according to which he did not spit on the champion’s contact, is correct. By the way, if convicted, he is expected to receive a two- to three-match suspension.
Earlier, in an interview with “5 in the Air”, a former footballer Eyal Berkowitz Referring to the Portuguese’s fact: “Joshua’s behavior is a catastrophe. I do not think he will be dismissed, because it is impossible to prove the spitting unequivocally. If you ask me, BS should release Joshua at the end of the season.”
As you may recall, in the final minutes of the Teddy game in which Maccabi Tel Aviv defeated BS 0: 1, and following a verbal confrontation with some of the champion players, Joshua was absorbed by York towards Avi Rikan. Game referee Gal Leibowitz missed the event, and despite demands from Riken and his teammates to keep the Portuguese away – Joshua finished the game on the pitch.
