{"id":705417,"date":"2026-07-22T15:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705417\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T15:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:07:10","slug":"world-cup-2026-gavi-does-not-think-paredes-should-be-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/705417\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Gavi does not think Paredes should be suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spain midfielder Gavi does not believe Argentina’s Leandro Paredes should be suspended for his part in the confrontation following the World Cup final.<\/p>\n

Argentina players Paredes, Nahuel Molina and Thiago Almada plus assistant coach Roberto Ayala all appeared to be involved in the fracas on the pitch as Spain celebrated their 1-0 win.<\/p>\n

Paredes seemed to push Spain’s Eric Garcia by the throat and unused substitute Gavi tried to intervene but was forced to the ground by Almada. <\/p>\n

Paredes pushed the Barcelona midfielder to the turf by putting his hand in the Spaniard’s face.<\/p>\n

Fifa has appointed a disciplinary and ethics prosecutor to assess what happened<\/a> and any player or coach involved could receive a suspension while the Argentine Football Association could also be fined.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think [Paredes] should be suspended,” Gavi told El Partidazo de COPE., external<\/a><\/p>\n

“I understand it’s not a good image for children, but I think there’s also that side to football, which is a bit more physical, more aggressive.<\/p>\n

“The most logical thing would have been to send him off during the match, and that’s it. In the end, I think it’s all football, and it has to be that way.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain midfielder Gavi does not believe Argentina’s Leandro Paredes should be suspended for his part in the confrontation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-705417","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\/705417","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=705417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}