Action was demanded of Uefa after the shameful scenes at the Estadio da Luz last week.<\/p>\n
And it has shown it is prepared to move quickly.<\/p>\n
European football’s governing body took just 16 hours to open a disciplinary case against Prestianni.<\/p>\n
Three working days later and he has been banned, pending the result of a full investigation.<\/p>\n
Uefa’s ethics and disciplinary inspector says there is a prima facie case against the Argentina international.<\/p>\n
It means that on the initial assessment, the evidence presented is adequate to support the charge of using discriminatory language.<\/p>\n
It might seem like a strange step, jumping the gun before a full ruling.<\/p>\n
But Uefa has precedent for applying an interim ban in such a case. It shows it recognises when unacceptable behaviour requires fast action.<\/p>\n
In 2021, Slavia Prague’s Ondrej Kudela was accused of racially abusing Rangers’ Glen Kamara in the second leg of a Europa League tie at Ibrox.<\/p>\n
Much like Prestianni, the Czech Republic international had covered his mouth before approaching Kamara.<\/p>\n
In identical timing to Prestianni, Uefa issued an interim one-game ban two days before Slavia Prague were scheduled to play Arsenal in the next round of the competition.<\/p>\n
Eight days later, Kudela was banned for 10 games after Uefa found the case proven.<\/p>\n
Uefa had to move faster this time because the next game was just a week away. But it has shown consistency in acting when the evidence demands it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Action was demanded of Uefa after the shameful scenes at the Estadio da Luz last week. And it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-441615","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}