FIFA suspends Argentina's Paredes for 10 games over World Cup final clashes
Several Argentina players including midfielder Leandro Paredes have been slapped with bans and fines for taking part in scuffles during the World Cup final against Spain in July. Paredes, who was banned for 10 international matches, was also fined $90,000. Argentina have also been ordered to play their next two home matches behind closed doors, though one match of that sanction is suspended. Boca Juniors player Paredes will be banned for 10 international games and was fined $90,000. A brief scuffle erupted at the final โwhistle when Paredes grabbed Eric Garcia by the throat and wrestled Spain's Gavi to the ground as the European champions' substitutes rushed onto the pitch to celebrate.
Paredes' Argentina teammate Nahuel Molina received a seven-match ban and must also pay a fine of $90,000, while Thiago Almada was suspended for one match and fined $30,000. Gavi was handed a similar penalty for his part in the fracas. The Argentinian Football Association (AFA) has been fined $321,000 for breaches of FIFA's disciplinary code relating to using a sports event for making demonstrations of a non-sporting nature, team misconduct, and discriminatory chants and gestures by its supporters. After Argentina beat England 2-1 in a tense World Cup semi-final, several Argentina players held up a banner saying: "Las Malvinas Son Argentinas" ("The Falklands are Argentine"). Watch more Forty years after Falklands War, wounds still run deep Argentine forces invaded the British overseas territory in the southwest Atlantic Ocean in 1982, which resulted in then-British prime minister Margaret Thatcher sending a naval task force to reclaim them.
The resulting conflict, which lasted for 74 days from April to June 1982, led to the deaths of 655 Argentine and 255 British servicemen. Three people from the islands also died. Page not found The content you requested does not exist or is not available anymore.
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