{"id":20383,"date":"2013-06-12T22:04:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T20:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/barcelonas-javier-sees-red-for-kicking-medic\/"},"modified":"2013-06-12T22:04:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T20:04:36","slug":"barcelonas-javier-sees-red-for-kicking-medic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/barcelonas-javier-sees-red-for-kicking-medic\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona\u2019s Javier sees red for kicking medic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=4907\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4907\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4907  \" alt=\"Kicking out ... Argentina captain Javier Mascherano is restrained by a teammate after his sending off. Source: Dolores Ochoa \/ AFP\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/1c03a_347367-javier-mascherano.jpg\" width=\"307\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kicking out \u2026 Argentina captain Javier Mascherano is restrained by a teammate after his sending off. Source: Dolores Ochoa \/ AFP<\/p>\n<p>Argentina\u2019s World Cup clash in Ecuador was marred by a freakish incident when <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Javier Mascherano\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Javier_Mascherano\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Javier Mascherano<\/a> was sent off for kicking the driver of a medical cart.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Barcelona midfielder appeared to have water thrown at him as he was being taken off the pitch, after picking up a knock, and then kicked the medical staff member navigating the cart.<\/p>\n<p>Referee Enrique Caceres showed Argentina\u2019s captain a red card in the 86th minute which led to angry scenes on the touchline.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City\u2019s <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Sergio Ag\u00fcero\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sergio_Ag%C3%BCero\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Sergio Aguero<\/a> opened the scoring from the penalty spot after four minutes before <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Segundo Castillo\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Segundo_Castillo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Segundo Castillo<\/a> equalised 13 minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina still lead the standings in the South America qualifying group on 26 points, three ahead of second-placed Colombia. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Sport<\/a><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/2013\/06\/soccer-player-gets-red-card-for-kicking-medical-cart-driver\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/1c03a_176894947_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/2013\/06\/soccer-player-gets-red-card-for-kicking-medical-cart-driver\/\" target=\"_blank\">Soccer player gets red card for kicking medical cart driver<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/6ea32_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kicking out \u2026 Argentina captain Javier Mascherano is restrained by a teammate after his sending off. Source: Dolores Ochoa \/ AFP Argentina\u2019s World Cup clash in Ecuador was marred by a freakish incident when Javier Mascherano was sent off for kicking the driver of a medical cart. The 29-year-old Barcelona midfielder appeared to have water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-20383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}