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Coentrao banned for abusive language

August 29, 2012
By Dermot Corrigan, Spain Correspondent
Real Madrid's Fabio Coentrao will miss Wednesday evening's Spanish Supercopa second leg after Spanish football's competition committee handed him a four-game ban for insulting referee Perez Lasa during Madrid's 2-1 defeat at Getafe last Sunday.

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Coentrao, who was an unused substitute for that game, has been found guilty of calling Perez Lasa a 'son of a bitch' (hijo de puta), from this place on the bench. Jose Mourinho said after the ...

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