FIFA says Tim Cahill's one-match ban stands

FIFA says Tim Cahill's one-match ban stands

Australia captain Tim Cahill's one-match ban has been accepted afterwards he was beatific off in the World Cup accumulation bold adjoin Germany, FIFA said Thursday.

Cahill was beatific off for a abhorrent on Bastian Schweinsteiger in the 56th minute of Australia's 4-0 accident Sunday. The midfielder accustomed an automated one-match ban accoutrement Saturday's bold adjoin Ghana, but FIFA could accept added the penalty.

FIFA agent Nicolas Maingot said the one-match ban would stand. Schweinsteiger approached Cahill in the alloyed area afterward the bout and told Cahill the red agenda was undeserved.

"We are animated that they did not account the accouterment austere abundant to accreditation annihilation further,'' said John Boultbee, a agent with the Australian football federation.

South Africa drillmaster Carlos Alberto Parreira, meanwhile, will not be accustomed over abrogating comments he fabricated about the adjudicator afterwards the 3-0 defeat to Uruguay on Wednesday night, Maingot said.


Parreira said adjudicator Massimo Busacca "was the affliction adjudicator so far'' afterwards he beatific off host nation goalkeeper Itumeleng Khune for benumbed Luis Suarez, which led to a penalty. Parreira aswell said that Busacca "doesn't deserve to be here'' and the adjudicator was "giving chicken cards that weren't chicken cards.''

FIFA advised the coach's comments, but said "there was no abuse of the FIFA antidotal code,'' Maingot said.

FIFA said it had not yet looked at a appeal by Portugal to abolish the chicken agenda accustomed to Cristiano Ronaldo in Tuesday's 0-0 draw adjoin Ivory Coast. Guy-Roland Demel brought down Ronaldo with a sliding abhorrent and adjudicator Jorge Larrionda appointed both for squaring up to anniversary other.