August 3, 2019, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Buenos Aires, (zameeni haqaiq ): Argentina captain Lionel Messi has been banned from international football for three months after claiming the Copa America was \u201ccorrupt\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Barcelona forward Messi, 32, was sent off in Argentina\u2019s 2-1 third-place play-off win over Chile and later said the \u201ccup was fixed for Brazil\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He has also been fined $50,000 (\u00a341,121) by Conmebol, the South American Football Confederation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Messi has seven days to appeal Conmebol\u2019s decision to suspend him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ban means Messi will miss Argentina\u2019s upcoming friendlies against Chile, Mexico and Germany in September and October.
\nArgentina\u2019s qualifying campaign for the 2022 World Cup begins in March 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following Argentina\u2019s 2-0 semi-final defeat by hosts Brazil, the Argentine Football Association complained about \u201cserious and gross refereeing errors\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In response, Conmebol said accusations questioning the integrity of the Copa America were \u201cunfounded\u201d and \u201crepresent a lack of respect\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Messi was shown a red card in the 37th minute against Chile, following a clash with Gary Medel, who was also dismissed.
\n\u201cWe don\u2019t have to be part of this corruption,\u201d Messi said. \u201cThey have showed us a lack of respect throughout this tournament.
\n\u201cSadly, the corruption, the referees, they don\u2019t allow people to enjoy football, they ruined it a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
August 3, 2019, Buenos Aires, (zameeni haqaiq ): Argentina captain Lionel Messi has been banned from international football for three months after claiming the Copa America was \u201ccorrupt\u201d. Barcelona forward Messi, 32, was sent off in Argentina\u2019s 2-1 third-place play-off win over Chile and later said the \u201ccup was fixed for Brazil\u201d. He has also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zameenihaqaiq.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zameenihaqaiq.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zameenihaqaiq.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zameenihaqaiq.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zameenihaqaiq.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zameenihaqaiq.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zameenihaqaiq.com\/test\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zameenihaqaiq.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zameenihaqaiq.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zameenihaqaiq.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}