{"id":484951,"date":"2024-07-05T10:06:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T14:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484951"},"modified":"2024-07-05T10:06:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T14:06:33","slug":"turkeys-demiral-receives-2-match-ban-for-celebration","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/turkeys-demiral-receives-2-match-ban-for-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey&#8217;s Demiral receives 2-match ban for celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey player Merih Demiral has been handed a 2-match ban by UEFA after he celebrated a goal at the European competition in Germany by displaying a hand sign of a wolf associated with an ultranationalist party in his country\u2019s 1\/8 final victory against Austria 3 days ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Turkey defender Merih Demiral has been handed a two-game suspension by UEFA after he celebrated a goal at Euro 2024 by displaying a hand sign associated with an ultra-nationalist group in his team&#39;s round-of-16 win over Austria on Tuesday. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Rh2LIbywn4\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Rh2LIbywn4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNFC\/status\/1809187977244905493?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The football governing body began probe of the incident 2 days ago and today they revealed that they find what the defender did to be violation of their rules and that he will be suspended 2 matches for that.<\/p>\n<p>Merih netted both goals in the 2-1 victory to secure his country a place in the \u00bc finals, though he will now miss Turkey\u2019s clash vs. the Netherlands tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>If his country wins that match, the defender would also not be able to play in the \u00bd final vs. either England or Switzerland, who will also play tomorrow. If the Dutch national men\u2019s team eliminates his country in the \u00bc final, Merih will serve his suspension in the next competitive match after the Euro 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey player Merih Demiral has been handed a 2-match ban by UEFA after he celebrated a goal at the European competition in Germany [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":484952,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17082,22317],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[18422,22318,6250],"acf":{"announce":"The Turkish defender will miss his country\u2019s next 2 games.","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\/484951"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484953,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484951\/revisions\/484953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484951"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484951"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}