Statement by UEFA:
Provisional suspension of SL Benfica player Gianluca Prestianni
Following the appointment of a UEFA Ethics and Disciplinary Inspector (EDI) to investigate allegations of discriminatory behaviour during the UEFA Champions League 2025/2026 Knock-out Play-off match between SL Benfica and Real Madrid CF on 17 February 2026, and upon request of the EDI with an interim report, the UEFA Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body (CEDB) today decided to provisionally suspend Mr. Gianluca Prestianni for the next (1) UEFA club competition match for which he would otherwise be eligible for the prima facie violation of Article 14 of the UEFA Disciplinary Regulations (DR) related to a discriminatory behaviour.
This is without prejudice to any ruling that the UEFA disciplinary bodies may subsequently make following the conclusion of the ongoing investigation and its respective submission to the UEFA disciplinary bodies.
Further information about this matter will be made available in due course.
Link – https://disciplinary.uefa.com/02a2-1ffea06e0006-61224c1efc56-1000/
by IWantAnOreoShake
15 Comments
Good, he doesn’t deserve to play at a stadium like the Bernabeu even for a minute. Hopefully the real suspension is much longer.
i wish he would play, i wanted the stadium to boo him every time he got the ball
He wouldn’t have survived Bernabeu anyways
He admitted to use the F word. It’s against the rules. No game for you!
The least UEFA could have done.
Let’s hope he’s banned for a long time so that he learns a lesson
Valverde is a boxer now
You know, I’m happy because with the luck we are having this season, he would have score against us and knock us off the CL
and Rocky Valverde?
Good thing that ray isn’t playing. I hope he never plays in the competition again. Best thing he can do is go back to Argentina. Europe doesn’t need this tool.
Now imagine for a second he is innocent. Cool precedent we create here. We just need to do the same for Bernardo Silva and he can’t play 2nd leg. Cool strategy
Making him endure 90 minutes inside the Bernabeu AND a suspension afterwards, would’ve been an amazing punishment, in my humble opinion.
UEFA saved that scum bag or at bernabeu we could have humbled that racist mf
May he never return