Melbourne City goalkeeper Dean Bouzanis has been banned for five games after he was found guilty of using racially abusive language by Football Federation Australia (FFA).<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old custodian was caught on camera\u00a0repeatedly calling Berisha\u00a0a “f***ing gypsy” following Manny Muscat\u2019s controversial 86th-minute own goal that gave Victory a 2-1 win.<\/p>\n
“The committee determined that the player did commit the offence and must serve a suspension of five matches \u2026 for committing the offence of ‘use of discriminatory language and\/or gestures, including racist, religious, ethnic or sexist’,” said FFA in a statement.<\/p>\n
The former Liverpool goalie will be sidelined until next A-League away clash with Western Sydney and likely replaced by Thomas Sorensen in the interim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Melbourne City goalkeeper Dean Bouzanis has been banned for five games after he was found guilty of using racially abusive language by Football Federation Australia (FFA). The 26-year-old custodian was caught on camera\u00a0repeatedly calling Berisha\u00a0a “f***ing gypsy” following Manny Muscat\u2019s controversial 86th-minute own goal that gave Victory a 2-1 win. “The committee determined that the player did commit the offence and must serve a suspension of five matches \u2026 for committing the offence of ‘use of discriminatory language and\/or gestures, including racist, religious, ethnic or sexist’,” said FFA in a statement. The former Liverpool goalie will be sidelined until next A-League away clash with Western Sydney and likely replaced by … Continue reading “Melbourne City’s Dean Bouzanis handed five-game racial abuse ban”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":1077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[242,241,243,95],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-dean-bouzanis","tag-melbourne-city","tag-melbourne-victory","tag-slider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}