• Athletic: The strange 1,000-pound bet that points to Trippier

With the Christmas mini-vacation just released (a three-day break), Atlético has come across a statement from the FA announcing the punishment of Kieran Trippier for a bet related to his own signing for the rojiblanco team.

According to the note, the player will not be able to play an official match or train with his team for 10 weeks and will have to pay 70,000 pounds, as requested by FIFA.

From the Madrid club they maintain that no one has notified them of anything official and that they continue to count on the English side until FIFA or the RFEF inform them otherwise.

"The FA does not have competition in Atlético or in the RFEF. It must be FIFA that officially informs us whether or not we can continue to count on Trippier," they explain to this newspaper from the rojiblanca entity, where they will not make an assessment until they receive the notification.

The full-back could not carry out any official activity related to football until the end of February, which would make him miss, in addition to

11 league games

and, for now, one in the Copa del Rey (there will be more if they go through rounds), the first leg Round of 16 of the Champions League against

Chelsea

.

Yes, he could continue training on his own, although never in the facilities of the rojiblanco club, where they have not yet received any notification, beyond reading that note from the FA.

The sanction to Trippier comes, to Simeone's relief, after having recovered

Sime Vrsaljko

a few days ago

, the other right back of the team, convalescing due to problems in his right knee that he had dragged from quarantine.

The English defender has played all the games in the League (13) and Champions (6) and has only rested in the Cup, against Cardassar, where Vrsaljko returned to the scene, his relief in position, and also the youth squad

Ricard Sanchez

.

In total, Trippier has played 1,710 minutes, the same as

Jan Oblak

.

The story of this matter started in the summer of 2019, days before Trippier signed for Atlético.

With the operation about to close, someone bet money on the transfer of the side from

Tottenham

.

Someone, apparently, related to the environment of the now rojiblanco player.

The amount played did not exceed 1000 pounds.

However, the alert jumped in the betting department of the English Federation (FA) and, despite the player's collaboration with the body, accused him of "misconduct" for violating the code that prevents betting on footballers.

A bet of 1,000 pounds

According to this newspaper from the rojiblanco club, the player's theory is that he could have commented to someone close to him that he was close to signing for Atlético, but he does not know who.

That would have led to that £ 1,000 bet.

And it is that in the English Federation there is a code of conduct and internal regulations with very strict rules, which the defense himself knows after playing more than 100 games in the Premier.

Last October, Trippier abandoned the concentration of his selection before the game against Denmark to attend a personal audience with the English Federation (FA), after having denied seven alleged infractions of

rule E8 (1) (b)

: " When a participant provides any other person with any soccer-related information that the participant has obtained by virtue of their position within the game and which is not publicly available at that time, the participant will have violated this rule when such information is used by that another person for, or in connection with, gambling. "

His compatriot

Daniel Sturridge

experienced a similar situation and was even sanctioned with four months off the pitch and a € 171,000 fine for suggesting to his brother that he bet that he was going to be transferred to Sevilla, in January 2018. The operation failed it was given, but it was shown that the bet had been produced by the information received from the forward.

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