{"id":4463,"date":"2020-12-02T18:32:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T19:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=4463"},"modified":"2020-12-02T20:09:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T20:09:20","slug":"messi-barcelona-fined-over-maradona-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=4463","title":{"rendered":"Messi, Barcelona fined over Maradona tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi was fined 600 euros ($980) for taking his jersey off to pay tribute to <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/diego-maradona-dead-at-60-argentina-football-icon-passes-away-after-health-problems\/7f2093af-e7e9-47c9-a4c7-d9b43cf916fd\" title=\"Diego Maradona\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Diego Maradona<\/a>, the Spanish soccer federation said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The federation&#x27;s competitions committee fined the Argentine player for his actions after scoring in Barcelona&#x27;s 4-0 win over Osasuna in the Spanish league on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>After a strike from outside the box, Messi took off Barcelona&#x27;s blue-and-burgundy to reveal the red-and-black of Maradona&#x27;s jersey from his stint at Newell&#x27;s Old Boys. Messi then blew a kiss with both hands to the sky as he looked upward.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"870aa8f1-07fb-4832-8804-b5fc1fed1863\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/870aa8f1-07fb-4832-8804-b5fc1fed1863\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After the game, Messi posted a photo of his tribute alongside an older image of Maradona in the same shirt, adding the message &quot;Farewell, Diego&quot; in Spanish. Maradona died last week at the age of 60.<\/p>\n<p>The federation also refused to void the yellow card that was shown to Messi for taking off his jersey, and fined Barcelona 180 euros ($294).<\/p>\n<p>Messi and the club can appeal the decisions.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"fd7c00ba-d913-4510-960e-1c5b98300326\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/fd7c00ba-d913-4510-960e-1c5b98300326\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"1085\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Lionel Messi was fined 600 euros ($980) for taking his jersey off to pay tribute to Diego Maradona, the Spanish soccer federation said on Wednesday. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=4463\" title=\"Messi, Barcelona fined over Maradona tribute\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4465,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463\/revisions\/4465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}