{"id":63639,"date":"2023-05-03T20:35:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T20:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/03\/lionel-messi-suspended-by-psg-over-saudi-arabia-trip\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T20:35:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T20:35:59","slug":"lionel-messi-suspended-by-psg-over-saudi-arabia-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/03\/lionel-messi-suspended-by-psg-over-saudi-arabia-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi suspended by PSG over Saudi Arabia trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/skysports-psg-lionel-messi_5697672-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"skysports-psg-lionel-messi_5697672\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Argentina captain Lionel Messi has been suspended by Paris St-Germain for two weeks after travelling to Saudi Arabia without the club\u2019s permission this week.<\/p>\n<p>The trip followed the French club\u2019s\u00a0home defeat by Lorient\u00a0on Sunday, in which Messi played the full 90 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Messi will not train or play for PSG during the period of his suspension.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>It is understood the 35-year-old asked permission to make the journey to carry out commercial work but was refused.<\/p>\n<p>Messi, who has also been fined by the club, has a role as a tourism ambassador for Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>The World Cup winner\u2019s two-year contract with PSG expires this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona vice-president Rafael Yuste claimed in March that the Spanish club\u00a0were in contact with Messi\u00a0about a return to the Nou Camp.<\/p>\n<p>Messi has scored 31 goals and contributed 34 assists in 71 games in all competitions for PSG, and wo<\/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=\"IDfbGINplbw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam on Adom TV (03-05-23)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IDfbGINplbw?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina captain Lionel Messi has been suspended by Paris St-Germain for two weeks after travelling to Saudi Arabia without the club\u2019s permission this week. The trip followed the French club\u2019s\u00a0home defeat by Lorient\u00a0on Sunday, in which Messi played the full 90 minutes. Messi will not train or play for PSG during the period of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lionel Messi suspended by PSG over Saudi Arabia trip - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/03\/lionel-messi-suspended-by-psg-over-saudi-arabia-trip\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lionel Messi suspended by PSG over Saudi Arabia trip - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Argentina captain Lionel Messi has been suspended by Paris St-Germain for two weeks after travelling to Saudi Arabia without the club\u2019s permission this week. 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