Franck Ribery has been suspended for three Serie
A matches after twice pushing an assistant
referee in Fiorentina’s 2-1 home defeat by Lazio
on Sunday.
Footage showed the 36-year-old remonstrating
with match officials after the final whistle as
Fiorentina protested Lazio’s 89th-minute winner.
The Fiorentina players claimed Lazio’s Jordan
Lukaku had fouled Riccardo Sotil in the build-up
to the goal and were angry that the referee did
not review the incident on the pitch-side monitor,
instead relying on a silent check by the VAR
official.
Serie A’s disciplinary tribunal said that Ribery had
approached the official with “threatening
behaviour” and pushed him twice.
In a statement on his Twitter page on Monday,
Ribery said: “I am very sorry for last night, I
apologise to my teammates, to the coach, to the
fans.”
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