{"id":832835,"date":"2026-07-30T05:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T05:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/832835\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T05:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T05:59:12","slug":"fifa-opens-disciplinary-proceedings-against-argentina-over-falklands-banner-and-final-chaos-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/832835\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifa opens disciplinary proceedings against Argentina over Falklands banner and final chaos | Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fifa has opened disciplinary \u00adproceedings against Argentina over the Falkland Islands banner \u00addisplayed after their World Cup semi\u2011final win <\/a>against England in\u00a0Atlanta.<\/p>\n

As Argentina<\/a> celebrated \u00adreaching the final with their dramatic 2-1 \u00advictory, several players held a sign \u00adproclaiming \u201cLas Malvinas son \u00adArgentinas\u201d \u2013 the \u00adMalvinas are Argentinian \u2013 in \u00adreference to the \u00adBritish overseas territory in the south\u00a0Atlantic.<\/p>\n

The dispute over the islands, which have been ruled by Britain since 1833, is long running and led to a 74-day conflict in 1982, during which more than 900 people \u2013 649 Argentinians and 255 Britons \u2013 lost their lives.<\/p>\n

Fifa\u2019s disciplinary code \u00adprohibits \u201cusing a sports event for \u00addemonstrations of a non-sporting nature\u201d and the banner prompted political debate on both sides of the \u00adAtlantic. A spokesperson for the then UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, said: \u201cThe World Cup might not be ours<\/a>,\u00a0but the Falkland Islands \u00addefinitely are.\u201d Andrew Giuliani, the head of the White House Fifa taskforce, defended Argentina\u2019s players<\/a>, saying the US believed in free\u00a0speech.<\/p>\n

The incident was not the first time an Argentina team had expressed such sentiments. In 2014, Fifa<\/a> fined Argentina \u00a320,000 for a far larger banner held \u200cup by players before a friendly with Slovenia in La Plata.<\/p>\n

Fifa\u2019s full World Cup<\/a> charge sheet against the Argentinian Football Association also includes \u00ad\u201cdiscriminatory chants and gestures, late kick-offs, failure to comply with match and security protocols, the display of inappropriate messages by the team and spectators and the throwing of objects by spectators in relation to several matches\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Several players are also under investigation in relation to the \u00adchaotic scenes that followed \u00adArgentina\u2019s 1-0 extra-time defeat by Spain<\/a> in the final. As Spain attempted to celebrate, \u00adaltercations broke out across the pitch at New York New Jersey\u00a0Stadium.<\/p>\n

The Argentina midfielder Leandro Paredes, who was seen wrestling Spain\u2019s Eric Garc\u00eda to the ground, faces three counts of assault under the Fifa disciplinary code, while the defender Nahuel Molina faces two counts of assault (one completed and one attempted) and one count of unsporting behaviour.<\/p>\n

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The assistant coach, Roberto Ayala, faces one count of assault, and Thiago Almada, an unused substitute in the final, one count of unsporting behaviour. Spain\u2019s Gavi also faces an unsporting behaviour charge.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn accordance with the Fifa \u00addisciplinary code, the respondents have now been provided with the opportunity to present their position, following which a decision will be issued by the Fifa disciplinary committee in due course,\u201d said Fifa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fifa has opened disciplinary \u00adproceedings against Argentina over the Falkland Islands banner \u00addisplayed after their World Cup semi\u2011final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-832835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}