{"id":3775,"date":"2026-05-06T19:46:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=3775"},"modified":"2026-05-06T19:46:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:46:52","slug":"andorras-pique-banned-for-2-months-6-matches-after-clash-with-match-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=3775","title":{"rendered":"Andorra&#039;s Piqu\u00e9 Banned For 2 Months, 6 Matches After Clash With Match Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            POPULAR SEARCHES\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-ace7f8b6>The Spanish soccer federation on Wednesday suspended Andorra owner Gerard Piqu\u00e9 for six matches following his complaints with the refereeing of a second-division game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-ace7f8b6>The federation also prohibited the former Spain and Barcelona star from acting as the club&#8217;s owner for two months for incidents during a 1-0 loss to Albacete at home on May 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-ace7f8b6>The club was fined 1,500 euros ($1,762), and its stadium was partially closed for two matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-ace7f8b6>The federation said Piqu\u00e9 told a match official: &#8220;In another country, they would tear you apart, but here in Andorra we are a civilized country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span>Gerard Piqu\u00e9 of Spain the former professional footballer, multiple title holder and superstar of FC Barcelona speaking during his session at the BRIDGE Summit 2025 at Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre ADNEC, United Arab Emirates on December 10, 2025. Gerard Pique highlighted the global expansion of the Kings League and discussed the future of sport and media at the summit. (Photo by Nicolas Economou\/NurPhoto via Getty Images)<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-ace7f8b6>Piqu\u00e9 and an investment group purchased FC Andorra in 2018, when the club in the small country of Andorra \u2014 located in the Pyrenees between Spain and France \u2014 was in the fifth division. The club was founded in 1942 and until now had mostly played in the lower tiers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-ace7f8b6>Andorra currently sits in 10th place in the second-division standings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-ace7f8b6><i>Reporting by The Associated Press.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY The Spanish soccer federation on Wednesday suspended Andorra owner Gerard Piqu\u00e9 for six matches following his complaints with the refereeing of a second-division game. The federation also prohibited the former Spain and Barcelona star from acting as the club&#8217;s owner for two months for incidents during a 1-0 loss to Albacete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}