Fifa Severly Punishes Turkey

[sarbaz]

6 Official Matches To Be Played Behind Closed Doors In A Neutral Country And 2 Of Thier Players Got 6 Match Suspension And 1 Got 2 Match Suspension.

This Was On Of The Harshest Ever Given To A European Country.

[Shahin K]

also some Swiss players are punished, I think 2

[The-Red]

there were rumors they could be out of 2010 WC,,,but that would be unreasonable punishment. It think what they got this time is fair enough. I hope the Swe. players get punished too.

[Crooked I]

nice

[Shahin K]

nice

why nice?

[1Heesham1]

nice

Off the topic - Great signiture man!

[GoIran]

Not severe IMO

[Crooked I]

thanks @ hh

shahin some of the turkish players like alpay were always animals and will always be animals so they deserve it,next time they learn

[Savehi]

i agree w/ foolad ...

turks deserve this ...

they play w/ so little class, esp. alpay and emre ....

however, banning them from 2010 would be way too harsh ...

[ramingeles2000]

im behind here, what did they do?

[RaginG Inferno]

Turkey started a huge brawl after the Turkey v Switzerland match in Istanbul. They won 4-2 but lost on aggregate.

[Club monaco]

In the main proceedings against the Turkish Football Federation:

- the Turkish Football Federation is ordered to play its next six official home matches behind closed doors in a neutral venue in another country affiliated to UEFA with a minimum distance of 500km to the Turkish border. The Turkish Football Federation is ordered to pay all organisational costs with regard to these six matches.
- a fine in the amount of CHF 200,000 (+ procedural costs of CHF 20,000).
In the individual proceedings against:
a) Alpay Ozalan (Turkey, player)
- a suspension of six official matches of his representative team. This suspension is carried over to the representative team's next official matches.
- a fine of CHF 15,000 (+ procedural costs of CHF 1,000)
b) Emre Belozoglu (Turkey, player)
- a suspension of six official matches of his representative team. This suspension is carried over to the representative team's next official matches.
- a fine of CHF 15,000 (+ procedural costs of CHF 1,000)
c) Serkan Balci (Turkey, player)
- a suspension of two official matches of his representative team. This suspension is carried over to the representative team's next official matches.
- a fine of CHF 5,000 (+ procedural costs of CHF 500)

d) Mehmet Ozdilek (Turkey, assistant coach)
- a ban from taking part in any football-related activity (administrative, sports or any other activity), within associations, confederations or FIFA for 12 months as from notification of this decision.
- a fine of CHF 15,000 (+ procedural costs of CHF 1,000)
e) Benjamin Huggel (Switzerland, player)
- a suspension of six official matches of his representative team. This suspension is carried over to the representative team's next official matches.
- a fine of CHF 15,000 (+ procedural costs of CHF 500)

f) Stephan Meyer (Switzerland, physiotherapist)
- a suspension of two official matches of his representative team. This suspension is carried over to the representative team's next official matches.
- a fine of CHF 6,500 (+ procedural costs of CHF 500)
The decisions will now be sent to the relevant parties and will be followed up with a detailed, reasoned explanation within the next thirty days.
With the exception of the decisions against Serkan Balci and Stephan Meyer, all other first-instance decisions passed by the FIFA Disciplinary Committee may be taken to the FIFA Appeal Committee before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne may be called upon to act as the body of final instance in accordance with the FIFA Statutes.