{"id":47976,"date":"2026-10-14T20:45:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T18:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47976"},"modified":"2026-10-14T20:45:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T18:45:25","slug":"real-madrids-vinicius-to-miss-clasico-after-four-game-suspension","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/real-madrids-vinicius-to-miss-clasico-after-four-game-suspension\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid&#8217;s Vinicius to miss Clasico after four-game suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Vinicius Jr will miss Real Madrid&#8217;s first Clasico of the season against \u200bBarcelona after the Spanish Football Federation&#8217;s \u200cdisciplinary committee handed the Brazil forward a four-match suspension on Wednesday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Vinicius was sent off \u200bfor pulling Nathan Saliba&#8217;s hair after \u200bcoming off the bench in Saturday&#8217;s 1-0 \u2060win over Villarreal.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The committee imposed a \u200btwo-match ban for the red-card offence \u200band added another two games for his protests to the referee, according to its disciplinary report \u200bfor the eighth round of LaLiga \u200bfixtures.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The suspension rules Vinicius out of league matches against \u200cSevilla, \u2060Barcelona, Racing Santander and Valencia, leaving coach Jose Mourinho without one of his most-used forwards for the trip to \u200bCamp Nou.<\/div>\n<div>Vinicius \u200bhas started \u2060all but one of Real&#8217;s matches this season.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He apologised to his \u200bteammates and Real Madrid fans \u200bon \u2060social media after the incident.<\/div>\n<div>The Clasico takes place on October 25, with Real travelling \u2060to \u200bface league leaders Barcelona. \u200bThe teams are separated by six points in the \u200btable.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23985,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-47976","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Vinicius was sent off \u200bfor pulling Nathan Saliba's hair after \u200bcoming off the bench in Saturday's 1-0 \u2060win over Villarreal.","published_date":"","news_description":"Vinicius was sent off \u200bfor pulling Nathan Saliba's hair after \u200bcoming off the bench in Saturday's 1-0 \u2060win over Villarreal.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47978,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47976\/revisions\/47978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}