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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nContrast this to the three game ban on to what FIFA did to the Nigeria player Abiodun for a mistaken challenge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the group-stage match between Nigeria and Canada, Deborah Abiodun was sent off after she unintentionally tackled Ashley Lawrence and hit her shin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But FIFA upgraded the 19-year-old\u2019s ban from a one-match ban to a three-match ban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reacting to the ban on social media, Pooja a sports Journalist said, \u201cDeborah Abiodun\u2019s red for unintentional tackle: 3-match ban by FIFA. Lauren James\u2019s red for intentional stamp: 2-match ban by FIFA. So, James will play in the final if England gets there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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A fan, @greenaleole tweeted, \u201cFIFA is ridiculous and awful but their disciplinary standards are based on how dangerous the action was considering that it\u2019s even surprising they extended James\u2019s ban from one game to two and they probably did that for how utterly unnecessary and intentional it was.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ayodele Solomon tweeted, \u201cWhere is the fair play in this??? Some of us know that FIFA bends its rules to favour some people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
IFA on Thursday banned Lauren James for two international games after she was sent off for stepping on the back of Nigeria\u2019s Michelle Alozie during the Round of 16 at Brisbane Stadium on Monday. It means James can\u2019t be selected for Saturday\u2019s quarterfinal against Colombia in Sydney and will also be out of commission if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,20,5,18,3,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-featured","category-health-fitness","category-international","category-lifestyle","category-naija-news","category-sports","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-45.png?fit=1000%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12204,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12201\/revisions\/12204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}