{"id":459765,"date":"2023-09-19T16:04:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T12:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=459765"},"modified":"2023-09-19T16:17:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T12:17:15","slug":"mls-releases-miljevic-from-montreal-after-amateur-game-appearance","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mls-releases-miljevic-from-montreal-after-amateur-game-appearance\/","title":{"rendered":"MLS releases Miljevic from Montreal after amateur game appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian MLS team Montreal terminated the contract of Matko Miljevic, who played an amateur match and got involved in a scandal with a rival. The contract was terminated due to &#8220;harmful conduct&#8221; and a breach of the standard agreement that applies to every footballer.<\/p>\n<p>He also used a fake name to participate in three amateur league games in an attempt to hide his decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Major Soccer League conducted its own investigation and subsequently terminated midfielder Matko Miljevic&#8217;s contract with Montreal due to a breach of contract,&#8221; Major Soccer League said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">MLS has torn up Matko Miljevic\u2019s Montreal contract for a wild reason \ud83e\udd2f<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old was struggling for game time when he joined a friend\u2019s amateur league team.<\/p>\n<p>He signed up under a fake name before allegedly punching an opponent and receiving a lifetime ban.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OptusSport?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#OptusSport<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ygRGsBb9R2\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ygRGsBb9R2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Optus Sport (@OptusSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OptusSport\/status\/1703922098337407443?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The management of Montreal and the 22-year-old footballer have not yet made a comment on the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian MLS team Montreal terminated the contract of Matko Miljevic, who played an amateur match and got involved in a scandal with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":459766,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18320,17528],"news_category":[17676,14235],"gn_keywords":[18568,714],"acf":{"announce":"The attacking midfielder breached MLS rules","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\/459765"}],"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=459765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/459765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459790,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/459765\/revisions\/459790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459765"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=459765"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=459765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}