Alianza Lima Appeals to TAS in dispute with Former Coach Cristian Díaz
Lima, Peru – Alianza Lima, one of Peru’s most popular football clubs currently competing in the quarterfinals of the 2025 South American Cup, has taken its dispute with former technical director Cristian Díaz to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAS).The move has surprised many of the club’s supporters.
The case stems from events in the 2024 season,when Díaz was hired mid-year but ultimately not retained. Díaz later filed a complaint with FIFA, which ruled in his favor, awarding him US $250,000.
Alianza Lima is now appealing to TAS seeking a “final agreement” (consensual award) with Díaz to avoid the full financial sanction. Argentine sports lawyer Marcelo Bee Sellarres confirmed the club’s action, stating, “Alianza Lima works at the TAS to arrive at a final agreement (consensual award) with DT Cristian Diaz. Ante FIFA, the Argentine DT obtained a favorable resolution for US $ 250,000.”
Cristian Díaz’s agent, Ulises Guallanez, detailed the situation in an interview with Radio ovación, alleging that Alianza Lima provided explanations for an agreement they later refused to honor for the 2024 season.Guallanez stated, “This issue is not personal, ther are no bad intentions, there is no teaching, but it is a matter of enforcing what was signed. There was breach of not putting it into operation and for the negligence of everything experienced, for having made him give up in a club were he was comfortable and not giving him the functions that the agreement that both parties had. After the firm, after three days a lawyer with the power of alliance. greater, that they coudl not defend the physical integrity of the coach, who were not given security and a lot of things, as if the country would be in an extremely serious state, pure ‘paved’ that had nothing to do with the decision they had made.”