{"id":626474,"date":"2026-09-24T22:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T22:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/626474\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T22:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T22:46:11","slug":"israels-sayed-abu-farhi-sent-off-for-appearing-to-mimic-gun-in-goal-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/626474\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel’s Sayed Abu Farhi sent off for appearing to mimic gun in goal celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israel’s Sayed Abu Farhi was sent off for a goal celebration where he appeared to use the corner flag to mimic shooting a gun in his side’s Nations League defeat by Austria.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old Colorado Rapids player equalised before doing the celebration which earned him a second yellow card.<\/p>\n

Football’s laws say a player can be booked for a goal celebration that acts in a provocative, derisory or inflammatory way.<\/p>\n

It came in a week where Israel’s actions in Gaza have made football headlines,<\/a> with a campaign for the Republic of Ireland to boycott their two upcoming matches.<\/p>\n

The home and away games against the Irish are due to go ahead in neutral venues.<\/p>\n

More than 73,000 people have been killed in Israeli attacks, according to the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry, whose figures are considered reliable by the United Nations (UN).<\/p>\n

The war was triggered by the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.<\/p>\n

Austria won the game in Linz 3-1 thanks to Romano Schmid’s opener and late strikes from Phillipp Mwene and Sasa Kalajdzic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel’s Sayed Abu Farhi was sent off for a goal celebration where he appeared to use the corner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-626474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}