Seattle Sounders forward Clint Dempsey was banned from the United States Open Cup for no less than two years on Thursday, his second discipline in a week for tearing up a ref's note pad amid a match in the competition on June 16.
Dempsey, the skipper of the United States national group, did not reach the official amid the episode a week ago in the Open Cup, a knockout rivalry that runs simultaneous with the Major League Soccer season. However, he thumped the ref's scratch pad from his hand amid a contention and afterward lifted it up and destroyed it as he left, drawing a launch.
In the wake of looking into the occurrence, the U.S. Open Cup's disciplinary board of trustees on Thursday suspended Dempsey for six Open Cup matches or the following two years of the competition, "whichever is more noteworthy," and fined him an undisclosed sum. That is notwithstanding the three-match forbid Dempsey got from Major League Soccer last Friday.
Dempsey's M.L.S. suspension will terminate in time for him to seek the United States in one month from now's Concacaf Gold Cup, yet the new, harsher boycott could build the weight on the national group mentor, Jurgen Klinsmann, to force his own control.
Klinsmann on Tuesday named Dempsey to his program for the Gold Cup, the territorial title competition that starts July 7, yet said of Dempsey's activities, "It's something that no one needs to see." Klinsmann said he would examine the episode with Dempsey when he touched base in camp.
No comments:
Post a Comment