MADRID (SPAIN) (ITALPRESS) – The Spanish Football Federation’s disciplinary committee has handed a seven-match ban to Sevilla coach Matias Almeyda following his confrontation with Galech Apezteguia, the referee for last Saturday’s match against Alaves. In addition to Almeyda, Joan Jordan and Juanlu Sánchez were also suspended, with two and one match bans, respectively. According to Spanish newspaper AS, the high number of suspensions is the result of a series of factors: three were handed down for contempt, the most serious offense, due to the gestures and words that followed the expulsion; Two more were handed out due to the coach’s protests. He was also punished with a match for unsporting conduct (presumably for kicking a bottle) and a final match for not going to the locker room but remaining in the tunnel after the red card was shown. Currently, the Sevilla coach, a former footballer who played for Lazio, Parma, Inter, and Brescia in Italy, is expected to miss half of the remaining matches, but the Andalusian club is doing everything in its power to reduce a suspension that appears too severe, especially given several other precedents in Spain’s two major leagues.
To find a similar situation, we have to go back over ten years, when, in the 2014-15 season, Diego Pablo Simeone received an eight-match suspension following a red card during a Madrid derby in the Spanish Super Cup, for protesting in a blatant manner, ignoring the referee’s instructions.
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