{"id":67381,"date":"2019-08-03T11:42:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T11:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=67381"},"modified":"2019-08-03T11:42:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T11:42:44","slug":"messi-suspended-from-argentina-for-3-months-for-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/messi-suspended-from-argentina-for-3-months-for-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi suspended from Argentina for 3 months for comments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Soccer body CONMEBOL suspended Lionel Messi from international matches for three months because of accusations of corruption he made at the latest Copa Am\u00e9rica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The South American body also said on Friday that it fined the superstar in USD 50,000 for his comments after Argentina\u2019s 2-1 win against Chile in the third-place playoff of the tournament in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 32-year-old will not play for Argentina matches in September against Chile and Mexico, plus another two in October versus Germany and another adversary to be picked.Neither Messi nor Argentina\u2019s soccer association have commented on CONMEBOL\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Messi is already suspended from the first match of the South American World Cup qualifiers next March because of the apparently undeserved red card he received against Chile.The Argentine was sent off for only the second time in his career after a shoving match with Chile midfielder Gary Medel, who also was ejected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Messi avoided the medal ceremony in protest and later said Argentina \u201cshouldn\u2019t take part in this corruption\u201d.The Argentinian also said the tournament was set for hosts Brazil to win.Messi had already complained against Copa Am\u00e9rica refereeing after Argentina\u2019s 2-0 loss to Brazil in the semifinals.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer body CONMEBOL suspended Lionel Messi from international matches for three months because of accusations of corruption he made at the latest Copa Am\u00e9rica. The South American body also said on Friday that it fined the superstar in USD 50,000 for his comments after Argentina\u2019s 2-1 win against Chile in the third-place playoff of the [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67383,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67381\/revisions\/67383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}