{"id":11162,"date":"2025-02-26T00:07:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T00:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/lionel-messi-inter-miami-forward-fined-after-grabbing-opposition-coachs-neck\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T00:07:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T00:07:56","slug":"lionel-messi-inter-miami-forward-fined-after-grabbing-opposition-coachs-neck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/lionel-messi-inter-miami-forward-fined-after-grabbing-opposition-coachs-neck\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi: Inter Miami forward fined after grabbing opposition coach&#8217;s neck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Lionel Messi has been fined an undisclosed amount by the MLS for violating the league&#8217;s policy relating to raising hands to the face, head or neck of an opponent.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The MLS Disciplinary Committee took the decision to fine Inter Miami forward Messi, 37, following an incident at the end of the 2-2 draw with New York City FC on 22 February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The eight-time Ballon d&#8217;Or winner was seen approaching a member of the opposition coaching staff and putting his hand on the back of their neck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Team-mate Luis Suarez has also been fined for violating the same MLS policy, after he pinched the back of opposing player Birk Risa&#8217;s neck in an incident at half-time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/ce98nrvke4zo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi has been fined an undisclosed amount by the MLS for violating the league&#8217;s policy relating to raising hands to the face, head or neck of an opponent. The MLS Disciplinary Committee took the decision to fine Inter Miami forward Messi, 37, following an incident at the end of the 2-2 draw with New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11164,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11162\/revisions\/11164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}