Suspension officially reduced for Faumuina

This is news that Ugo Mola must have received favorably. On May 21, during the match of the 25th day of the Top 14 and a trip to Brive, Charlie Faumuina received a red card in the 18th minute due to a dangerous ground clearance on Luka Japaridze. As a result, the New Zealand pillar appeared before the Disciplinary Committee of the National Rugby League (NRL). Initially suspended for a period of six weeks, Charlie Faumuina expressed regret vis-à-vis his gesture. An admission of guilt which allowed him to see his penalty halved. Consequently, the pillar could not be available before a possible final of the Top 14. However, in order to further reduce this sanction, the Toulouse leaders decided to activate the “Head Contact Process” with World Rugby.

Faumuina requalified a week earlier

Suspended on the occasion of the big victory against Biarritz at the end of the regular season then during the play-off won against La Rochelle, Charlie Faumuina will be able to be aligned this Friday at the Allianz Riviera in Nice for the semi-final of the Top 14 opposing the defending champion to Castres. Indeed, the Toulouse pillar has complied with the obligations that the “Head Contact Process” imposes. A system put in place by World Rugby which “allows any player who has been sanctioned with a red card to ask the disciplinary body that the last week of his suspension be replaced by the establishment of a “training on the technique of tackling or on a workshop which is linked to the defective technical gesture”, specifies the LNR in a press release. In this way, Charlie Faumuina sees his initial suspension reduced from three to two weeks, allowing him to be qualified again.
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