The big plans of new Metalist Kharkiv president and owner Serhiy Kurchenko were dealt a huge blow on Aug. 28 when a sports arbitrage court in Switzerland dismissed the soccer club’s last appeal to get reinstated in this season’s Champions League, Europe’s pre-eminent club tournament.
The decision upheld the Aug. 13 disqualification of Metalist by
Europe’s top soccer governing body on match-fixing grounds that dates to
a game played against Lviv Karpaty on April 19, 2008
