given a six-match ban by Uefa<\/a> last month after he admitted using homophobic language towards Real Madrid’s Vinicius during their Champions League match in February.<\/p>\nHe will be banned for two further games, having already served a provisional one-match ban, with the other three suspended for two years.<\/p>\n
Football’s global governing body Fifa has accepted Uefa’s request for a worldwide ban. <\/p>\n
Prestianni has only made one appearance for Argentina, which came in a friendly against Angola in November 2025.<\/p>\n
He was also called-up by Lionel Scaloni in March but did not play in two friendlies.<\/p>\n
Vinicius had initially accused Prestianni of racially abusing him, which Prestianni denied.<\/p>\n
He would have faced a minimum 10-match ban from European competition if he had been found guilty of racist abuse.<\/p>\n
If he is not selected in Argentina’s World Cup squad, Prestianni will serve his ban in next season’s Champions League or Europa League, with Benfica still battling for European qualification.<\/p>\n
Prestianni raised his shirt to cover his mouth while speaking to Vinicius, and it has since been confirmed that players could be given a red card<\/a> if they do this at the World Cup. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benfica winger Gianluca Prestianni will miss Argentina’s first two matches of this summer’s World Cup if selected, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-569719","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\/569719","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=569719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}