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Updated Saturday June 24, 2000
UEFA fine Yugoslavs £48,500 for fan assault
By Adrian Warner

ROTTERDAM, June 23 (Reuters) - UEFA fined the Yugoslav soccer federation £48,500 on Friday after ugly incidents at Wednesday's Euro 2000 group C clash with Spain and confirmed the suspension of Slavisa Jokanovic from the quarter-finals for a red card.

One Yugoslav fan ran on the field to try to attack French referee Gilles Veissiere and another threw a coin wich struck him above the eye, causing bleeding after the game won 4-3 by Spain with a dramatic late comeback.

The decision taken by UEFA's disciplinary committee was based on a series of incidents which took place during the match as well as afterwards.

In addition to the coin-throwing, a total of 13 flares were lit in the stands after Yugoslavia's three goals and another one was thrown on the pitch after a Yugoslav player was cautioned, UEFA said.

A Yugoslav supporter ran on the pitch when Jokanovic was red-carded in the 63rd minute and another came on after the final whistle.

'As a result of this combination of circumstances, the Control and Disciplinary Board's findings underlined the thoroughly bad conduct of the Yugoslav supporters, the dangerous throwing of objects and the potential danger of the pitch invasions,' UEFA said in a statement.

'The findings also stressed the bad conduct of the Yugoslav players (who have had three players dismissed in as many matches) and previous records in terms of order within the stadium and improper conduct of the team.'

The Yugoslavs have until midnight on Saturday to appeal against the decision.

Midfielder Jokanovic will miss Sunday's match with the Netherlands in Rotterdam.

UEFA also confirmed that four other players would miss this weekend's quarter-finals through suspension - Yugoslavia's Mateja Kezman and the Romanian trio of Cosmin Contra, Dan Petrescu and Adrian Ilie.

Romania had five players cautioned during their last game against England and UEFA also decided to fine their national association 7,000 Swiss francs.

The German soccer federation (DFB) was also fined 4,000 Swiss francs after four of their players were cautioned during Germany's 3-0 defeat by Portugal which put the defending champions out of the competition.

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