Emre Picks Up Six Match Ban

Inter.it (c)
By Matt Jones
February 7 2006

Newcastle United's Emre will miss his countries next six games, as both he and his national team were punished by FIFA on Tuesday - following incidents which occured back in November 2005.

The FIFA Disciplinary Committee met over two days at its headquarters in Zurich to discuss the invidents, which occured on the 16th November as Turkey's took on Switzerland in Istanbul in a World Cup play-off game.

FIFA's official website, www.fifa.com, reported: "The Turkish Football Federation has been 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 play all organisational costs with regard to these six matches - a fine in the amount of CHF 200,000 (+ procedural costs of CHF 20,000)."

It was reported that Emre will recieve "a suspension of six official matches of his representative team. This suspension is carried over to the representative team's next official matches."

Emre has also picked up a CHF 15,000 fine, plus procedural costs of CHF 1,000.

 
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