{"id":116178,"date":"2018-09-04T10:27:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T14:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=116178"},"modified":"2018-09-04T10:27:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T14:27:10","slug":"dominican-football-chief-still-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/09\/04\/dominican-football-chief-still-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican football chief still suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_116138\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116138\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-116138\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Osiris-Guzman-El-Dia-300x290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-116138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Osiris Guzm\u00e1n \/ El D\u00eda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>FIFA&#8217;s Ethics Committee has extended the provisional suspension of Dominican Republic Football Association president Osiris Guzm\u00e1n for a further 45 days. He had initially been suspended for 90 days on 4 June 2018, when a formal investigation against him was opened.<\/p>\n<p>No details of his alleged offence have been officially revealed, but it has been alleged in the local media that he allowed FIFA-funded facilities to be used for a political meeting. This would be a breach of the world governing body&#8217;s strict rules that demand political neutrality in football.<\/p>\n<p>Guzman will continue to be banned from all football-related activities at both national and international level. He had received an earlier ban from football, serving 15 days in 2011, after a bribery scandal involving Caribbean officials.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the story:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidethegames.biz\/articles\/1069505\/fifa-extend-provisional-suspension-of-dominican-republic-football-association-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inside the Games<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4 September 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA&#8217;s Ethics Committee has extended the provisional suspension of Dominican Republic Football Association president Osiris Guzm\u00e1n for a further 45 days. He had initially been suspended for 90 days on 4 June 2018, when a formal investigation against him was opened. No details of his alleged offence have been officially revealed, but it has been &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/09\/04\/dominican-football-chief-still-suspended\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}