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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\n\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Malaga are confident their appeal against a UEFA ban from future continental competition over delays in payments to creditors will be successful, club director general Vicente Casado has said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;UEFA said in its ruling published in December that Qatar-owned Malaga had been sanctioned \"due to the presence of significant overdue payables balances\".&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The governing body also ordered the club to prove by the end of this month \"that it has no overdue payables towards football clubs or towards employees and/or social/tax authorities\".&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Malaga appealed the decision at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and Casado said the hearing would likely take place on May 14 with a decision expected sometime in June.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"We are very optimistic,\" he said on Malaga's website (www.malagacf.com) late on Tuesday. \"We have met with our obligations and we will prove it.\"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Malaga are through to the quarter-finals of the Champions League on their debut in the competition and are currently sixth in La Liga, which would earn them a place in the Europa League, Europe's second-tier club competition, for next season. &lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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