{"id":34379,"date":"2025-02-25T23:52:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/lionel-messi-fined-by-mls-after-grabbing-opposing-coach-by-neck\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T23:52:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T23:52:00","slug":"lionel-messi-fined-by-mls-after-grabbing-opposing-coach-by-neck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/lionel-messi-fined-by-mls-after-grabbing-opposing-coach-by-neck\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi fined by MLS after grabbing opposing coach by neck"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Inter Miami star was booked for dissent <\/li>\n<li>Messi provided two assists in the match<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/lionel-messi\">Lionel Messi<\/a> has been fined an undisclosed amount by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/mls\">Major League Soccer<\/a> after grabbing the neck of a New York City assistant coach at the end of Saturday\u2019s game between the sides.<\/p>\n<p>The World Cup winner was caught on camera in a confrontation with NYC FC assistant coach Mehdi Ballouchy after the final whistle. Messi twice put his hands on the back of Ballouchy\u2019s neck during the arguments. MLS said in a statement that their disciplinary committee had ruled that the Argentinian had violated the league\u2019s \u201cHands to the face\/head\/neck of an opponent policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/feb\/25\/lionel-messi-fine-confrontation-mls\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inter Miami star was booked for dissent Messi provided two assists in the match Lionel Messi has been fined an undisclosed amount by Major League Soccer after grabbing the neck of a New York City assistant coach at the end of Saturday\u2019s game between the sides. The World Cup winner was caught on camera in &#8230; <a title=\"Lionel Messi fined by MLS after grabbing opposing coach by neck\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/lionel-messi-fined-by-mls-after-grabbing-opposing-coach-by-neck\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lionel Messi fined by MLS after grabbing opposing coach by neck\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}