Disgraced Slavia Prague defender Ondrej Kudela has taken the first steps to take an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport after UEFA upheld the ten-match ban that will cause him to miss the Euros.
Racist Kudela was hit with the suspension after being found guilty of racially abusing Rangers star Glen Kamara in the last-16 tie of the Europa League at Ibrox in March.
And this week his appeal was thrown out by UEFA's Controls, Ethics and Disciplinary Body which took in verbal instead of previous written evidence.
Now his team of lawyers are deciding whether to take their case to the Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport.
His lawyer, Rene Ciencial, said: "We have already submitted a request for justification, which is a condition for the start of international sports arbitration.
"We will consider whether to proceed with the process this week."
However, even if Kudela did decide to go ahead with appealing the case at the CAS, he still wouldn't have any chance of playing against Scotland at Euro 2020.
The process could take several months before the CAS would consider the case and the 34-year-old will miss the next eight matches for club and country, with Slavia Prague's two ties against Arsenal in the Europa League counted as his first two games in his punishment.
