{"id":313739,"date":"2026-02-23T23:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/313739\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T23:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:15:11","slug":"suspension-for-prestianni-after-vinicius-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/313739\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspension for Prestianni after Vinicius incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benfica&#8217;s Gianluca Prestianni has been provisionally suspended for Wednesday&#8217;s Champions League return leg against Real Madrid by UEFA following the Vinicius Junior alleged racism incident last week.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid forward Vinicius alleged he was the subject of racist abuse by a Benfica player &#8211; later named by Real as Prestianni &#8211; during the first leg between the clubs last Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>UEFA on Monday announced a provisional one-match ban for Prestianni following the appointment of a UEFA ethics and disciplinary inspector to investigate the incident.<\/p>\n<p>UEFA said further punishment could be handed out once the investigation is completed.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Real Madrid v Benfica in the Champions League knockout phase play-offs on Wednesday from 7.30pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player<\/p>\n<p class=\"youtube-container\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benfica&#8217;s Gianluca Prestianni has been provisionally suspended for Wednesday&#8217;s Champions League return leg against Real Madrid by UEFA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-313739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}