Seattle Sounders forward Clint Dempsey was banished from the United States Open Cup for no less than two years on Thursday, his second discipline in a week for tearing up an arbitrator’s note pad amid a match in the competition on June 16.
Dempsey, the commander of the United States national group, did not reach the official amid the occurrence a week ago in the Open Cup, a knockout rivalry that runs simultaneous with the Major League Soccer season. However, he thumped the arbitrator’s scratch pad from his hand amid a contention and afterward lifted it up and shredded it as he left, drawing a discharge.
In the wake of surveying the occurrence, the U.S. Open Cup’s disciplinary board of trustees on Thursday suspended Dempsey for six Open Cup matches or the following two years of the competition, “whichever is more prominent,” and fined him an undisclosed sum. That is notwithstanding the three-match forbid Dempsey got from Major League Soccer last Friday.
Dempsey’s M.L.S. suspension will lapse in time for him to go after the United States in one month from now’s Concacaf Gold Cup, however the new, harsher boycott could build the weight on the national group mentor, Jurgen Klinsmann, to force his own control.
Klinsmann on Tuesday named Dempsey to his list for the Gold Cup, the provincial title competition that starts July 7, however said of Dempsey’s activities, “It’s something that no one needs to see.” Klinsmann said he would talk about the occurrence with Dempsey when he landed in camp.
PERU REACHES SEMIFINALS Paolo Guerrero’s cap trap drove Peru to a 3-1 win against Bolivia in Temuco, Chile, securing the Peruvian group a spot in the elimination rounds of the Copa América.
Guerrero opened the scoring in the 20th moment when he headed in a consummately set cross from Juan Vargas. Guerrero included his second in the 23rd on a counterattack, and his third came in the 74th subsequent to capturing a pass.
Bolivia’s Marcelo Moreno scored on an extra shot in the 84th.
Peru confronts Chile on Monday in the elimination rounds.
