{"id":1090,"date":"2014-01-27T21:39:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T21:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2014-01-27T21:39:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T21:39:54","slug":"striker-punished-over-gesture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/striker-punished-over-gesture\/","title":{"rendered":"Striker Punished Over Gesture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p itemprop=\"description\">Mario Balotelli has been fined \u00a38,200 for making a provocative gesture to rival Cagliari supporters after scoring in AC Milan&#8217;s 2-1 win on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The striker, 23, was booked for unsporting behaviour after scoring\u00a0an 87th-minute equaliser.<\/p>\n<p>It was his eighth yellow card of the season, which means he is suspended for Saturday&#8217;s game against Torino.<\/p>\n<p>Balotelli was sent off earlier\u00a0this season for insulting match officials at the end of a match against Napoli.<\/p>\n<p>Italy coach Cesare Prandelli had said on Monday that the striker would learn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He will need a lot of love, he is a guy who we give a lot to and is important for Milan.&#8221; Pandelli added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mario Balotelli has been fined \u00a38,200 for making a provocative gesture to rival Cagliari supporters after scoring in AC Milan&#8217;s 2-1 win on Sunday. The striker, 23, was booked for unsporting behaviour after scoring\u00a0an 87th-minute equaliser. It was his eighth yellow card of the season, which means he is suspended for Saturday&#8217;s game against Torino. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,82],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}