Barcelona captain Lionel Messi has been fined €600 ($ 724) by the Competitors Committee for taking off his shirt in a La Liga match towards Osasuna in a tribute to the late Argentinian soccer icon Diego Maradona.
The six-time Ballon d’Or winner eliminated his shirt after netting Barca’s fourth aim, unveiling a Newell’s Outdated Boys equipment beneath, a membership each Messi and Maradona have represented.
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He additionally pointed to the sky, paying respect to the soccer icon, whose sudden demise on the age of 60 shocked all the world.
Messi was brandished with a yellow card for his on-pitch tribute, because it violated the Spanish FA Disciplinary Code.
“The footballer who, on the event of getting scored a aim or for any trigger derived from the vicissitudes of the sport, raises his shirt and shows any form of promoting, slogan, legend, acronyms, anagrams or drawings, no matter their content material or the aim of the motion, might be punished, because the creator of a critical offence, with a wonderful of as much as €three,000 and a warning,” the Code says.
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Messi has been fined €600 and issued with a warning by the Competitors Committee, which additionally fined Barcelona €350 ($ 423).
The membership is anticipated to enchantment the yellow card, with Barca supervisor Ronald Koeman insisting it needs to be overturned.
“We all know that there’s a rule [relating to the award of] the yellow card. However we additionally know that it was his dedication to Maradona when he took off his shirt. It isn’t my determination, however for me I’d take it off,” he stated.
