{"id":12494,"date":"2011-10-20T19:44:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T02:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/10\/20\/indonesia-international-facing-six-month-ban\/"},"modified":"2011-10-20T19:44:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T02:44:06","slug":"indonesia-international-facing-six-month-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/10\/20\/indonesia-international-facing-six-month-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia international facing six-month ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.caughtoffside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/WORLDCUP20141.jpg\" height=\"326\" width=\"284\" \/>GOAL &#8211; JAKARTA, <strong>Young Indonesia international Irfan Bachdim  could be banned for six months and fined more than \u20ac8,000 for allegedly  missing national team training in order to chase a modeling career. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The  naturalised 23-year-old, who has 12 senior caps, is reported to have  been summoned for Under-23 national team duty earlier in the week, only  to miss the sessions to take on an advertisement shooting job instead.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\">The Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI)  is furious with the situation and could come down hard to Irfan, however  the youngster said he was never summoned for duty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI read  newspaper reports saying I ran away from the national team. That is not  true. I really want to play for this country,\u201d Irfan said via <em>Twitter <\/em>on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter  the Qatar game, there was no information telling me to join up with the  U-23 team, so I carried out an activity for one of my sponsors for two  days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, PSSI discipline commission deputy chief Catur Agus Saptono told <em>kompas.com<\/em>:  \u201cI have told Irfan that if he was found to have violated the rule, he  would be charged under article 78 of the disciplinary code concerning  rejection of a national team call-up. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to the code, Irfan could be banned for six months and fined Rp 100 million (\u20ac8,235).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indonesian  national soccer team coordinator Bob Hippy was furious with Irfan and  said he wouldn&#8217;t be welcome back in the Merah Putih set-up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes,  congratulations. I wish him success in his new profession. Maybe he is  more suited to that profession,\u201d a furious Hippy told<em> kompas.com<\/em>. \u201cThis will not affect the national team. We need to be firm; no one is special. So, goodbye [Irfan].&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOAL &#8211; JAKARTA, Young Indonesia international Irfan Bachdim could be banned for six months and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3504,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}