{"id":723824,"date":"2026-06-24T21:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T21:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/723824\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T21:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T21:08:08","slug":"world-cup-2026-qatars-assim-madibo-given-five-match-ban-for-foul-on-canadas-ismael-kone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/723824\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Qatar&#8217;s Assim Madibo given five-match ban for foul on Canada&#8217;s Ismael Kone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Qatar midfielder Assim Madibo has been given a five-match ban for his challenge on Canada&#8217;s Ismael Kone at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Madibo, 29, was sent off during Qatar&#8217;s 6-0 defeat last Thursday following a foul which resulted in Kone sustaining a broken leg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fifa&#8217;s disciplinary committee has now imposed a five-match suspension for serious foul play, which is subject to appeal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kone suffered fractures to both the tibia and fibula bones in his lower left leg and the former Watford midfielder will miss the rest of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-year-old, who now plays for Italian side Sassuolo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cql12n692rwo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">underwent surgery shortly after the game<\/a> in Vancouver and was visited in hospital by Madibo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Canada play Switzerland in their final group game on Wednesday and hope to qualify for the last 32 as group winners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Qatar need to beat Bosnia-Herzegovina to have any chance of progressing from the group stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Qatar midfielder Assim Madibo has been given a five-match ban for his challenge on Canada&#8217;s Ismael Kone at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-723824","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\/723824","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=723824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}