Wednesday, 30 January 2019

Italian football coach banned for butting rival at end of Serie C match – video

Serie C coach Giancarlo Favarin has been given a five-month ban for violently butting a member of the opposing team’s staff and telling a player to break an opponent’s legs.

Footage of the incident showed the coach of Lucchese butting Gaetano Mancino, assistant coach of rivals Alessandria, during a brawl in injury-time during a 2-2 draw between their teams on Sunday.

Serie C’s disciplinary tribunal said in a statement that Favarin made ‘blasphemous remarks’ during the match and ‘invited his own player to break the legs of an opponent’. Mancino, meanwhile, was given a two-match ban for ‘offensive and provocative behaviour towards the coach of the rival team during the match’

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from Football | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2WurwIC

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