{"id":12003,"date":"2026-11-07T18:15:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T18:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/07\/argentina-appeals-fifa-sanctions-over-world-cup-final\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T18:15:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T18:15:52","slug":"argentina-appeals-fifa-sanctions-over-world-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/07\/argentina-appeals-fifa-sanctions-over-world-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina appeals FIFA sanctions over World Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"56.123769338959\">\n<p>Argentina\u2019s football association announced on Saturday it had appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against the sanctions FIFA imposed on it over World Cup final incidents.\n<\/p>\n<p>Midfielder Leandro Paredes was the hardest hit, with a 10-game ban and $90,000 fine for his role in clashes with Spain players.\n<\/p>\n<p>He grabbed Eric Garcia by the throat and wrestled Gavi to the ground while holding his substitute\u2019s bib, which led to an escalation in the incidents on the field after the final that Spain won 1-0 at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey on July 19.\n<\/p>\n<p>The AFA was fined `$321,000 for breaches of FIFA\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Nahuel Molina and Thiago Almada were also hit with bans and fines, as\u00a0was Roberto Ayala, a member of Argentina\u2019s coaching team. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In a statement, AFA said FIFA\u2019s appeals body had rejected their complaint against the sanctions handed out to Paredes and the association, but had reduced Molina\u2019s punishment from a seven-match ban and 60,000.\n<\/p>\n<p>AFA also stated it would now take its appeals against its own and Paredes\u2019s sanctions to CAS.<\/p>\n<p>AFP\n                    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#4c38242929282538233e0c3c39222f24222b622f2321\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"94e0fcf1f1f0fde0fbe6d4e4e1faf7fcfaf3baf7fbf9\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina\u2019s football association announced on Saturday it had appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against the sanctions FIFA imposed on it over World Cup final incidents. Midfielder Leandro&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}