Rabat - Yassine Benajiba has been given a two-game ban by UEFA after the Moroccan-Belgian player wore a T-shirt showing support for Gaza.
Rabat – Yassine Benajiba has been given a two-game ban by UEFA after the Moroccan-Belgian player wore a T-shirt showing support for Gaza.
Benajiba of the Luxembourgian club Dudelange was suspended for two matches after displaying the T-shirt with the message “free Gaza Palestine” after scoring against Ludogorets.
He will miss his team’s two Europa League games against Ireland’s Dublin UCD.
The moroccan player Yassine Benajiba got suspended 2 games by the UEFA for supporting Palestine. [via @212_Oussoud] pic.twitter.com/3fbpjdLOA7
— Morocco Stats (@MoroccoStats) 24 Juin 2015
UEFA rules consider it an offence when an individual, club or association “uses sporting events for manifestations of a non-sporting nature.”
Other players have been sanctioned last season in the Europa League under the same UEFA rule.
Guingamp midfielder Mustapha Diallo was fined 10,000 euros for displaying a T-shirt with a picture of a Muslim school director in Senegal after scoring against Dynamo Kiev in February.
