FIFA has reportedly imposed disciplinary sanctions on Argentine players and staff following the altercations that broke out after Argentina\u2019s 1-0 defeat to Spain in the 2026 World Cup final on July 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the report, FIFA\u2019s Disciplinary Committee handed Leandro Paredes a 10-match suspension, while Nahuel Molina received a seven-match ban. Assistant coach Roberto Ayala was suspended for three matches, while Spanish midfielder Pablo Mart\u00edn P\u00e1ez \u201cGavi\u201d received a one-match suspension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Argentine Football Association (AFA) was also fined $321,000<\/strong> for incidents during the tournament. FIFA additionally ordered Argentina to play its next two home matches with stadium attendance limited to 50%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The post-match confrontation became one of the tournament\u2019s most controversial scenes. Paredes was involved in a physical confrontation with Spanish defender Eric Garc\u00eda, while Gavi intervened to defend his teammate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FIFA has reportedly imposed disciplinary sanctions on Argentine players and staff following the altercations that broke out after Argentina\u2019s 1-0 defeat to Spain in the 2026 World Cup final on July 19. According to the report, FIFA\u2019s Disciplinary Committee handed Leandro Paredes a 10-match suspension, while Nahuel Molina received a seven-match ban. Assistant coach Roberto […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":522177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40943,6],"tags":[611],"class_list":["post-522176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","category-sports","tag-deultimominuto"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2bQc","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/IMG_4771.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Edith B\u00e1ez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-11-at-11.09.56-AM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Football","Sports"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/IMG_4771.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}