{"id":435309,"date":"2023-05-11T02:57:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T06:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=435309"},"modified":"2023-05-11T02:57:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T06:57:27","slug":"rapids-suspends-max-alves-with-alleged-unlawful-sports-gambling","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rapids-suspends-max-alves-with-alleged-unlawful-sports-gambling\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapids suspend Max Alves with alleged unlawful sports gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Rapids announced the suspension of winger Max Alves on Wednesday in connection with alleged unlawful sports gambling.<\/p>\n<p>The Rapids released a statement announcing a player had been suspended but did not identify him: &#8220;We are aware of the reports regarding a Colorado Rapids player in connection with unlawful sports gambling. We take matters of this nature seriously and seek at all times to protect the integrity of the game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The player has been removed from all team activities while MLS conducts an investigation into the matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A statement from Major League Soccer. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7oZKKRqitV\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/7oZKKRqitV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLS Communications (@MLS_PR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLS_PR\/status\/1656450529000669186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>MLS also issued a statement with similar wording Wednesday, adding that a current and former player had been involved in unlawful gambling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Rapids announced the suspension of winger Max Alves on Wednesday in connection with alleged unlawful sports gambling. The Rapids released a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":435310,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17792,17528],"news_category":[17676,14235],"gn_keywords":[19280,714],"acf":{"announce":"The team didn't announce officially the player's name","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435309"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=435309"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=435309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}