Edwin Cardona banned

Colombian National soccer team Midfielder Edwin Andrés Cardona Bedoya has been banned for his next five friendly games with Colombia.

Last month Colombia’s international football team lost a friendly match in the Sangam Stadium to South Korea 2-1; Edwin Cardona as desperation and anger towards the North Korean team he made ¨Squinting-eyes¨ and as a show of racism FIFA banned him for his next 5 games with Colombia.

Although Cardona´s actions were excesive and unessearyry some people said FIFA punished him softly.

¨For the majority of the experts consulted Edwin Cardona got it cheap,¨ as stated in EL Colombiano.

FIFA realesed a statement were they explained the sanction as of why he was banned for five games.

The FIFA statement said ¨The Colombian Player Edwin Cardona has been sanctioned for a discriminatory gesture at an opponent during the friendly macth played between the representative teams of Korea and Republic and Colombia on November 10 2017.¨

Cardona´s actions were completely unnecessary and were punishable even by the total absence of the 2018 World Cup hosted in Russia.

As the South Korean captain Ki Sung-Yeung said ¨Racist behavior is absolutely unacceptable.¨

Cardona´s Action was also punished with twenty thousand dollars and had to apologize thorugh social media to everyone who felt offended by his acts caught on camera.

Cardona said Ït was Not my intention to show a lack of respect to anyone, or a country or race, but if anyone feels offended or have interpreted it that way I can only apologise a thousand times.¨

Cardona still denied his actions were with anger and said they were misinterpreted.

Cardona also commented ¨I am not a person who seeks conflict and I´m sorry that a situation during the game has been misinterpreted in this way.¨

Although Carodona apologized he odesnt admit he commited any wrongdoing but Sung-Yeng Koreas captain described his behavior as ¨absolutly unacceptable.¨

Luckily Cardona is still hable to participate in the World Cup once he has full filled his banned but currently until the World Cup starts Colombia has only one friendly and its agiants France.

El Colombiano ¨Para la mayoría de expertos consultados por este diario, Edwin Cardona ´la sacó barata´¨