{"id":7514,"date":"2019-08-03T14:31:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T09:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=7514"},"modified":"2019-08-03T14:33:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T09:33:54","slug":"lionel-messi-banned-from-international-football-for-three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/7514","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi Banned from International Football for Three Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina star Lionel Messi was banned from playing international Football for three months and fined $50,000 by the South American Football Confederation,\u00a0after he heavily criticized the South American football governing body during the Copa America.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old Barcelona forward had accused CONMEBOL of &#8220;corruption&#8221; after he was sent off against Chile during the third-place play-off during the tournament in Brazil, which ended last month.<\/p>\n<p>Messi was angered by two incidents during the June-July Copa hosted by bitter rivals Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina were denied two penalty claims in their 2-0 semi-final defeat to the hosts, after which Messi claimed Brazil were &#8220;managing a lot in CONMEBOL these days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Messi has seven days to appeal Conmebol&#8217;s decision to suspend him.<\/p>\n<p>The ban means Messi will miss Argentina&#8217;s upcoming friendlies against Chile, Mexico and Germany in September and October.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina&#8217;s qualifying campaign for the 2022 World Cup begins in March 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina star Lionel Messi was banned from playing international Football for three months and fined $50,000 by the South American Football Confederation,\u00a0after he heavily criticized the South American football governing body during the Copa America. The 32-year-old Barcelona forward had accused CONMEBOL of &#8220;corruption&#8221; after he was sent off against Chile during the third-place play-off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7515,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7514\/revisions\/7515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}