{"id":509164,"date":"2026-02-25T11:56:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=509164"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:56:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:56:50","slug":"uefa-rejects-benficas-appeal-over-prestianni-suspension","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/uefa-rejects-benficas-appeal-over-prestianni-suspension\/","title":{"rendered":"UEFA rejects Benfica&#8217;s appeal over Prestianni suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gianluca Prestianni will not play today in his team\u2019s 2<sup>nd<\/sup> leg UCL match vs. Los Blancos in the Spanish capital after UEFA rejected Benfica\u2019s appeal against his ban.<\/p>\n<p>The winger was handed a provisional 1-game suspension after the Royal club forward Vini Junior reported alleged racist abuse during the 1<sup>st<\/sup> leg in Lisbon between the 2 clubs, which Real won 1-0 after a goal from the Brazilian superstar.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese giants revealed they would appeal the decision, but knew that the chances were not in their favor.<\/p>\n<p>The football governing body has imposed the ban on a provisional basis, as the suspension could become much worse after an independent investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Prestianni traveled with Benfica to Madrid and even trained at Bernabeu yesterday as he waited for a decision in his favor that would allow him to play today. However, that will not happen after it was dismissed by Uefa&#8217;s Appeals Body, and the Argentinian remains provisionally banned for their next game in Europe, which will be the tie with Real Madrid in a few hours.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8 \ud835\uddd5\ud835\udde5\ud835\uddd8\ud835\uddd4\ud835\uddde\ud835\udddc\ud835\udde1\ud835\uddda: S.L. Benfica\u2019s appeal has been REJECTED by UEFA.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf7 Gianluca Prestianni remains suspended and will miss the clash against Real Madrid CF \u274c<\/p>\n<p>Massive blow for Benfica ahead of a huge European night. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bLCJXKkZAU\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/bLCJXKkZAU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Football updates ! TV \ud83d\udcfa \u26bd\ud83d\udc99 (@footb___updates) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/footb___updates\/status\/2026682956639776934?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 25, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gianluca Prestianni will not play today in his team\u2019s 2nd leg UCL match vs. Los Blancos in the Spanish capital after UEFA rejected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":509085,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18737,27065,17375],"news_category":[142,14235],"gn_keywords":[18738,27066,25864],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The football governing body rejected the Eagles' appeal.","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\/509164"}],"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=509164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509165,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509164\/revisions\/509165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509164"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=509164"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=509164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}