{"id":288080,"date":"2026-07-29T21:45:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=288080"},"modified":"2026-07-30T16:43:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:43:29","slug":"fifa-opens-disciplinary-case-against-argentina-national-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/288080\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA opens disciplinary case against Argentina national team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

FIFA have opened disciplinary proceedings against Argentina’s football association (AFA) and its players for several alleged breaches at the World ​Cup, including the holding up of a banner ‌asserting sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

Following Argentina’s semi-final victory over England in Atlanta, some players brandished a banner declaring “Las Malvinas Son Argentinas” (“The Falklands are ​Argentine”).<\/p>\n

FIFA will examine whether the display violated the organization’s rules, which prohibit political statements and displays during competitions.<\/p>\n

The disciplinary proceedings will also look into possible additional breaches related to team conduct and match organization.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FIFA have opened disciplinary proceedings against Argentina’s football association (AFA) and its players for several alleged breaches at the World ​Cup, including the holding up of a banner ‌asserting sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, Reuters writes. Following Argentina’s semi-final victory over England in Atlanta, some players brandished a banner declaring “Las Malvinas Son Argentinas” (“The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":287763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,98,47,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-other-en","category-society","category-sport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288081,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288080\/revisions\/288081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}