Turkey defender Merih Demiral banned for two games for Wolf salute

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Turkey defender Merih Demiral banned for two games for Wolf salute
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Jude Bellingham cleared to play in England’s Euro 2024 quarter-final

quarter-finals, has been suspended for two matches over a wolf salute he made towards the crowd at the match in Leipzig on Tuesday.Uefa said Demiral had been suspended for “failing to comply with the general principles of conduct, for violating the basic rules of decent conduct, for using sports events for manifestations of a non-sporting nature and for bringing the sport of football into disrepute”.

The Grey Wolves are classified as a rightwing extremist group with 18,500 to 20,000 members in Germany, making it the second-biggest rightwing extremist organisation after Alternative für Deutschland, according to the domestic intelligence agency, the federal office for the protection of the constitution .

The Real Madrid star gestured towards the Slovakia bench after scoring an overhead kick to force extra time. Uefa announced on Friday that Bellingham had been fined €30,000 and issued with a suspended one-match ban. The ban will be triggered by a further offence within one year, Uefa said.

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