Tottenham have appealed the size of the seven-match ban given to midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur by the English Soccer Affiliation (FA) for feedback he made about teammate Son Heung-Min in a tv interview earlier this yr.
Bentancur, 27, was handed a seven-game suspension and a £100,000 ($126,710) fantastic by the FA on Tuesday for utilizing abusive language and bringing the sport into disrepute throughout a Spanish-language interview on Uruguayan tv in June.
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The cost by the FA stemmed from a clip posted on social media after Bentancur was interviewed on Uruguayan Tv programme “Por La Camiseta.” Host Rafa Cotelo requested Bentancur for a Spurs participant’s shirt, to which he replied, “Sonny’s?” [Son Heung-Min], including: “It might be Sonny’s cousin too as all of them look the identical.”
He denied the FA cost. Spurs have stated that they settle for the cost, however imagine the size of the ban given to the Uruguay worldwide is just too harsh.
“We will verify that the Membership has appealed in opposition to the size of Rodrigo Bentancur’s FA suspension, issued earlier this week,” Spurs stated in a press release on Wednesday.
“Whereas we settle for the responsible discovering in opposition to Rodrigo by the impartial regulatory fee, we imagine the following sanction is extreme.
“Rodrigo will stay suspended from home competitions whereas the attraction is heard and the Membership will make no additional remark throughout this time.”
The ban, whether it is upheld, doesn’t apply to European competitions, which means Bentancur can nonetheless play in opposition to Roma and Rangers within the Europa League, however he would miss Premier League clashes with Manchester Metropolis, Chelsea and Liverpool, in addition to a Carabao Cup quarterfinal in opposition to Manchester United.
