Gianluca Prestianni was suspended for six games after his insult about Vinícius Jr

The UEFA Preserve an eye on, Ethics and Disciplinary Committee sanctioned this Friday with six games for “discriminatory conduct (that is, homophobic)” to the Benfica player Gianluca Prestianni during the game his team played against Accurate Madrid in the Champions League.

On February 17, during the first leg of the round of 32 of the competition, Prestianni covered his mouth with his hand and turned to Vinícius, who denounced the match referee, François Letexier, that the Benfica footballer I had called him “monkey.”

The referee activated the protocol for these cases and The game was stopped for a dozen minutes.

Prestianni then denied having racially insulted Vinícius and weeks later, in an interview with ‘Telefe’, he confirmed that I had called him a “faggot.” “For Argentines it is a common insult. They call me a racist when I never was nor will I ever be one. For us Argentines it is a common insult to say ‘cagón’ or ‘maricón’“, said.

After the investigation carried out by a UEFA inspector into the events, the institution chaired by Alexander Ceferin sentenced the Argentine player to a six-match ban, although three of them are suspended for a two-year trial period, as reported by the institution through an official statement.

This decision (that is, the six-match ban) includes the provisional suspension of one match that the player served during the return match played at the Bernabéu, on February 25. In addition, it requests FIFA to extend the suspension worldwide.

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