{"id":1073863,"date":"2022-05-02T14:58:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T14:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/02\/fifa-imposes-stadium-bans-on-senegal-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2022-05-02T14:58:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T14:58:35","slug":"fifa-imposes-stadium-bans-on-senegal-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/02\/fifa-imposes-stadium-bans-on-senegal-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifa imposes stadium bans on Senegal, Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"385\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/nigeria-220329-teampic-bpp-1050-696x385.jpg\"   alt=\"Nigeria \u00a9 Backpagepix\" title=\"Nigeria \u00a9 Backpagepix\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nigeria \u00a9 Backpagepix<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fifa has ordered African champions Senegal and Nigeria to play one match behind closed doors after crowd disorder during last month\u2019s 2022 World Cup play-offs.<\/p>\n<p>Fans shone laser pointers at Egypt star Mohamed Salah as he missed in the penalty shootout, won by Senegal, in the second leg in Dakar.<\/p>\n<p>Senegal were fined 175 000 Swiss francs ($180 000) over several incidents, including a pitch invasion, an offensive banner and for failing \u201cto ensure that law and order are maintained in the stadium\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Fifa issued a raft of sanctions worldwide after studying dozens of cases from World Cup qualifying games played since the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria were hit with a one-game stadium closure and fined 150 000 Swiss francs after fans invaded the pitch in Abuja following their play-off defeat by Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Republic of Congo and Lebanon received similar punishments following disturbances at games against Morocco and Syria respectively.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"2ApziQ4-7Js\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Plight of The Ghanaian Worker - Badwam Afisem on Adom TV (2-5-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2ApziQ4-7Js?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria \u00a9 Backpagepix Fifa has ordered African champions Senegal and Nigeria to play one match behind closed doors after crowd disorder during last month\u2019s 2022 World Cup play-offs. Fans shone laser pointers at Egypt star Mohamed Salah as he missed in the penalty shootout, won by Senegal, in the second leg in Dakar. Senegal were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1073865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1870,779,11376,633,1281,2066],"class_list":["post-1073863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bans","tag-fifa","tag-imposes","tag-nigeria","tag-senegal","tag-stadium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}