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UEFA connected Friday, handed Benfica’s Gianluca Prestianni a six-match prohibition pursuing alleged racist insults directed astatine Real Madrid’s Vinicius Junior during some sides’ UEFA Champions League play-off lucifer successful Lisbon immoderate weeks ago.
Benfica announced the quality successful an authoritative statement, saying the Portuguese nine received a notification from UEFA.
According to the statement, Prestianni was suspended for “six matches” for the usage of homophobic connection during Benfica’s Champions League necktie with Real Madrid successful March.
Recall that the Champions League playoff was overshadowed by respective troubling incidents, astir notably erstwhile Vinicius accused Prestianni of utilizing racist slurs against him.
The Champions League playoff archetypal limb brushwood was played successful Lisbon, and UEFA aboriginal banned Prestianni for the instrumentality limb astatine the Santiago Bernabeu.
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