{"id":519762,"date":"2026-03-12T20:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/519762\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T20:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:17:09","slug":"pedro-neto-uefa-open-disciplinary-proceedings-against-chelsea-winger-for-pushing-ball-boy-during-champions-league-defeat-to-psg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/519762\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro Neto: Uefa open disciplinary proceedings against Chelsea winger for pushing ball boy during Champions League defeat to PSG"},"content":{"rendered":"

Uefa has opened disciplinary proceedings against Chelsea winger Pedro Neto after he pushed over a ball boy during the Champions League defeat by Paris St\u2011Germain.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old Portugal international shoved the youngster in stoppage time of Wednesday’s last-16 first leg at Parc des Princes – where Chelsea lost 5-2 – which caused him to fall off a chair.<\/p>\n

It sparked an altercation between both sets of players.<\/p>\n

Uefa said proceedings have been instigated against Neto for “unsporting behaviour” in accordance with its disciplinary regulations.<\/p>\n

“Uefa’s disciplinary bodies will take a decision on this case in due course,” European football’s governing body added in its statement.<\/p>\n

Neto apologised for the incident<\/a> after the match and blamed being caught up “in the emotion of the game” while he was attempting to quickly retrieve the ball.<\/p>\n

“I’m not like this. It was in the heat of the moment and I want to apologise. I gave him my shirt. I’m really sorry about it – I feel I have to apologise to him,” Neto told TNT Sports.<\/p>\n

“My French is not very good, and [Portugal team-mate] Vitinha came over and said to him I was not like this.<\/p>\n

“At the end he [the ball boy] laughed and I gave him my shirt and said sorry about 35 times. He could see what had happened and was happy with the situation.”<\/p>\n

Chelsea host PSG next Tuesday in the second leg, following Newcastle’s visit to Stamford Bridge on Saturday in the Premier League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Uefa has opened disciplinary proceedings against Chelsea winger Pedro Neto after he pushed over a ball boy during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-519762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}