{"id":12498,"date":"2011-10-23T08:52:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T15:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/10\/23\/acl-brawl-initial-penalties-handed-out\/"},"modified":"2011-10-23T08:52:03","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T15:52:03","slug":"acl-brawl-initial-penalties-handed-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/10\/23\/acl-brawl-initial-penalties-handed-out\/","title":{"rendered":"ACL brawl: initial penalties handed out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.footballpakistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/afc.jpg\" style=\"float: right;\" height=\"240\" width=\"240\" \/>GOAL &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR,<strong> The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has released a press statement outlining the initial penalties for those involved in the violent scenes that marred Wednesday&#8217;s Asian Champions League (ACL) semi-final first leg between Suwon Bluewings and Al Sadd.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An all-in brawl involving players, coaching staff and even a fan erupted after Al Sadd striker Mamadou Niang raced through on goal to score his side\u2019s second goal of the evening; after Suwon had put the ball out following an injury.<\/p>\n<p>Suwon spokesman Choi Won-Chang has come out firing believing that although his side was partly to blame in the altercation, Al Sadd deserve to be punished more severely for their misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ll take responsibility for the lack of security,\u201d Choi told the <em>AFP.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I expect the opponents to get far heavier punishment for the ungentlemanly act and assaulting the fan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Initial penalties given by the AFC mean that Al Sadd will be without Keita Abdul Kader, Niang and goalkeeper coach Suhail Saber Ali for the return leg of the semi-final on Wednesday, while Suwon have had both player Stevica Ristic and coach Ko Jong-Su suspended for the clash as well.<\/p>\n<p>The second leg of the ACL clash will take place at the Sheikh Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium on October 26.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, this is not the first instance of violence that has taken place involving Al Sadd in Asian club football. In 2004 the Qatar club were part of a melee with Kuwaiti side Al Qadisiya which former AFC president Mohamed bin Hammam described as a &#8220;boxing match&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>On that instance, Al Qadisiya were thrown out of the ACL, suspended from the competitions for three years and copped a \u20ac14,400 fine. The Qataris remained in the ACL but had five players disqualified from the competition for two years.<\/p>\n<p>With the latest incident still to be deferred to the AFC Disciplinary Committee, more penalties are expected to be handed down on Suwon and Al Sadd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOAL &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has released a press statement outlining&#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-12498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3560,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12498","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=12498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}