{"id":268595,"date":"2025-11-07T21:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/268595\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T21:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:34:09","slug":"milutin-osmajic-preston-forward-given-nine-game-ban-for-racially-abusing-hannibal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/268595\/","title":{"rendered":"Milutin Osmajic: Preston forward given nine-game ban for racially abusing Hannibal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Preston North End forward Milutin Osmajic has been given a nine-game ban after he was charged with racially abusing Burnley midfielder Hannibal Mejbri.<\/p>\n

The incident happened during Preston’s goalless draw with Burnley<\/a> in February and the 26-year-old will now miss up to and including their game against Stoke City on 26 December.<\/p>\n

The Montenegrin has also been fined \u00a321,000.<\/p>\n

Osmajic, who “strongly refuted” and denied the allegations was charged by the Football Association (FA) in March with a hearing taking place in September.<\/p>\n

The FA said, external<\/a> that following the hearing, an “aggravated breach”, where using abusive and\/or insulting words which included reference to colour and\/or race, was found to be proven.<\/p>\n

In response,, external<\/a> Preston said they were “extremely disappointed” by the decision and reaffirmed their opposition to all forms of discrimination.<\/p>\n

“We note that the outcome was determined on the ‘Balance of Probabilities’ rather than one that is ‘Beyond Reasonable Doubt’,” the club added.<\/p>\n

“We also note that the FA determined that this decision offers no moral judgement, was not premeditated nor any comment about his general character.<\/p>\n

“Milutin has always pleaded his innocence of the charge and continues to do so. We continue to be fully supportive of our player.”<\/p>\n

Burnley, meanwhile, are yet to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Preston North End forward Milutin Osmajic has been given a nine-game ban after he was charged with racially…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-268595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}