{"id":33554,"date":"2024-09-28T22:30:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T19:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=33554"},"modified":"2024-09-29T08:31:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T05:31:12","slug":"fifa-suspends-argentina-goalkeeper-for-2-matches-in-world-cup-qualifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/28\/fifa-suspends-argentina-goalkeeper-for-2-matches-in-world-cup-qualifying\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Suspends Argentina Goalkeeper for 2 Matches in World Cup Qualifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Argentina&#8217;s soccer association (AFA) said on Friday that FIFA suspended goalkeeper Emiliano Mart\u00ednez for two matches of South American World Cup qualifying in October.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The decision rules out the 32-year-old from official games in the round-robin competition against Venezuela and Bolivia on Oct. 10 and 15.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">AFA said in a statement that FIFA&#8217;s disciplinary commission sanctioned Mart\u00ednez due to incidents in two World Cup qualifying matches against Chile and Colombia earlier this month. The soccer body did not describe which incidents led to the punishment, The Associated Press reported.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Mart\u00ednez made an obscene gesture after his team&#8217;s 3-0 win against Chile by holding the Copa America trophy close to his genitals, as he did after the South American team lifted the World Cup title in Qatar in the end of 2022.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Later, he slapped a local cameraman after Argentina&#8217;s 2-1 defeat against Colombia in Barranquilla.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Argentina&#8217;s soccer body said it \u201cabsolutely disagrees\u201d with FIFA&#8217;s decision.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Argentina leads South American World Cup qualifying with 18 points after eight games, followed by Colombia (16) and Uruguay (15).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies Argentina&#8217;s soccer association (AFA) said on Friday that FIFA suspended goalkeeper Emiliano Mart\u00ednez for two matches of South American World Cup qualifying in October. The decision rules out the 32-year-old from official games in the round-robin competition against Venezuela and Bolivia on Oct. 10 and 15. AFA said in a statement &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33555,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33554\/revisions\/33555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}