{"id":9374,"date":"2025-06-06T06:47:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T10:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/matic-and-hassan-suspended-for-hiding-anti-homophobia-symbol-in-ligue-1\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T06:47:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T10:47:54","slug":"matic-and-hassan-suspended-for-hiding-anti-homophobia-symbol-in-ligue-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/matic-and-hassan-suspended-for-hiding-anti-homophobia-symbol-in-ligue-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Matic and Hassan, suspended for hiding anti-homophobia symbol in Ligue 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sanctions in Ligue 1 for Hiding Anti-Homophobia Badge<\/h2>\n\n\nThe French Ligue 1 has imposed sanctions on Lyon&#8217;s Nemanja Matic and Le Havre&#8217;s Ahmed Hassan for covering the anti-homophobia badge on their jerseys. Both players have been suspended for two matches, with another two matches suspended.\n\nMatic, 36, covered the badge during Lyon&#8217;s 2-0 victory over Angers on May 17, on the final day of the Ligue 1 season. His contract with Lyon expires at the end of this month.\n\nHassan, 32, received the same sanction for an incident during Le Havre&#8217;s 3-2 victory over Strasbourg.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0409%2Fr1476062_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Nemanja Matic&#039;s contract at Lyon is set to expire at the end of the month.\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nFurthermore, the committee proposed Matic, who immediately accepted, to participate in an awareness campaign against homophobia in football within six months, according to a statement from Ligue 1.\n\nThe Ligue 1 had planned for players to wear rainbow symbols on their jerseys or armbands and display messages in the stadiums as part of their annual awareness campaign.\n\n\n<p>However, participation has been irregular in recent years, with some players citing personal or religious reasons for not participating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanctions in Ligue 1 for Hiding Anti-Homophobia Badge The French Ligue 1 has imposed sanctions on Lyon&#8217;s Nemanja Matic and Le Havre&#8217;s Ahmed Hassan for covering the anti-homophobia badge on their jerseys. Both players have been suspended for two matches, with another two matches suspended. Matic, 36, covered the badge during Lyon&#8217;s 2-0 victory over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3632,3633,258,3634],"class_list":{"0":"post-9374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-homophobia","9":"tag-ligue-1","10":"tag-lyon","11":"tag-nemanja-matic"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}