Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE).- The Las Palmas Sports Union has responded to the controversy generated around the youthful Joel Domínguez that it would be “a contradiction” for a club like his, which collaborates in various programs for the social reintegration of young people with judicial problems, “turning his back” on a player from the entity.
In a statement, UD Las Palmas thus comes out of the way of the criticism it has received for allowing Joel Domínguez to go to the pre-season with the First Division team, when it is a young man firmly convicted -and with his confession- for a crime of sexist violence committed against his girlfriend, a minor.
The Sports Union recalls that the player has already served the sentence that was imposed on him at the time (40 days of work for the benefit of the community) and also the internal sanction that the club set for him: training alone for the same time.
It also stresses that “his continuity in the club was conditioned to submitting to an intervention coordinated by the Foundation (of the entity itself) and carried out by external professionals, aimed at redirecting his attitude and behavior.”
“The player has already completed the disciplinary sanction and the agreed intervention program will end this week,” he adds.
Unión Deportiva Las Palmas points out that “it has participated and continues to participate in various initiatives and programs aimed at avoiding the social exclusion of people convicted in court, facilitating their reintegration into society”.
Among other things, he details, he collaborates with the General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions of the Ministry of the Interior to work with inmates in penitentiary centers in the Canary Islands and in recent years they have carried out various activities with prisoners.
“In addition, since 2018, it has launched a soccer team specifically aimed at working with minors with judicial measures, in collaboration with the Juvenile Court number 1 of Las Palmas. And, also, activities are being carried out with minors subjected to judicial measures in collaboration with various NGOs dedicated to working with them”, he says. EFE