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The manager of Chelsea Football Club, Jose Mourinho, has been warned not to interfere with the duties of doctors during matches and this warning was coming from FIFA sequel to the decision of the club to ban the chief doctor of the club from being present during matches or ever visiting members of the team in their hotel rooms.

The Federation International Football Association had frowned at this decision and called it an interference of the norms. It would be recalled that Mourinho showed his anger with the way and manner that Ion Fearn and Carneiro rushed to attend to Eden Hazard when the later had a fall on the field of play around stoppage time during their week 1 premier league match.

The two medical staff had rushed unto the field to give Eden hazard required treatment; Michael Oliver had dismissed Thaibaut Couretois earlier and the Chelsea team was reduced to 10 men. Thereafter, Mourinho had complained bitterly about the decision of the doctors to step in at such a critical time.

He claimed that Hazard only sustained a bruise or was just tired and he would have stood up on his own to continue with the game. He believed that his team would have won the match if the doctors had not chosen that moment to step in. He equally lamented the lack of understanding of the game of football by the medical team; he claimed they would have refrained from their action if they had a better understanding of how football games work.

However, FIFA is not seeing from Mourinho’s point of view. They out rightly condemned him for the way he had treated Dr Eva Carneiro.  This condemning view was supported by the chief medical officer for FIFA, Professor Jiri Dvorak. He said that no coach has the right to give any order to the medical team on when to enter the pitch to attend to a player perceived to need help.

In his words, he said: “In medical aspects, in medical diagnosis, the manager has nothing to say. This is our professional law and out ethical duty to look after the players’ health”. The professor went further to say that the doctors have not stepped out of their bounds in the way and manner they entered onto the pitch to attend to the player.  He insisted that the position of the medical staff of the football clubs must be defended vehemently to prevent encroachment by football club managers.

The professor further stated that every member of staff of the club must respect and accept the fact that doctors are in charge. While stating that he never intended to interfere with affairs of any club, he however insisted that Dr Eva Carneiro has not done anything wrong and therefore does not deserve the treatment she got from the coach and the management of the club.      

Chelsea however hope to put the disappointment of their drawn week one match behind them as they face Manchester City, last season’s premier league runners up, at the Ethiad Stadium. This will be the week 2 match of the English Premier League and Chelsea hope to get their first full three points of the seasons at the end of the match.