{"id":30249,"date":"2024-03-11T11:01:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T08:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/30249\/serie-a-game-marred-as\/"},"modified":"2024-03-11T11:01:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T08:01:19","slug":"serie-a-game-marred-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=30249","title":{"rendered":"Serie A game marred as Lecce coach head-butts Verona striker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serie A game marred as Lecce coach head-butts Verona striker\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Lecce coach Roberto D&#39;Aversa and Hellas Verona striker Thomas Henry (No. 9) were sent off. <cite>Donato Fasano\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Lecce coach Roberto D&#39;Aversa appeared to headbutt Hellas Verona striker Thomas Henry following a heated clash between two teams just above the relegation zone in Serie A Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Henry was arguing with Lecce defender Marin Pongracic after the final whistle when D&#39;Aversa came to intervene and ended up knocking Henry down with a header.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (US)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNext Saturday we have another big game [against Salernitana] and I didn&#39;t want my players to get banned,&#8221; D&#39;Aversa said. &#8220;So I went out to try to separate them from my opponents, and then the incident with Henry happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have already apologized to the Verona management,\u201d D\u2019Aversa added.  \u201cAs a coach and father of three children, I want to apologize for what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>D&#39;Aversa and Henry were expelled.<\/p>\n<p>While replays appeared to show that it was indeed a spur of the moment, D&#39;Aversa later said in an Instagram post that that was not the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was wrong and I apologize,\u201d D\u2019Aversa said.  &#8220;I got carried away and lost all lucidity, but not to the point of hitting anyone else&#8230; Once again, I apologize to Henry, to the supporters of Lecce, Verona and Italians, with the referees, with the two clubs, with my management, my staff and my team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Michael Folorunsho scored early in the first half for Verona, who won 1-0 to move up to 13th, two points above the drop zone.  Lecce lost a point in 15th position.<\/p>\n<p>Lecce said in a statement that they \u201cstrongly disapprove\u201d of what the coach did because it \u201cgoes against the principles and values \u200b\u200bof sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serie A game marred as Lecce coach head-butts Verona striker\u060c Lecce coach Roberto D&#39;Aversa and Hellas Verona striker Thomas Henry (No. 9) were sent off. Donato Fasano\/Getty Images Lecce coach Roberto D&#39;Aversa appeared to headbutt Hellas Verona striker Thomas Henry following a heated clash between two teams just above the relegation zone in Serie A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1528,246,11754,11753,11752,3587,3547,11755],"class_list":["post-30249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-coach","tag-game","tag-headbutts","tag-lecce","tag-marred","tag-serie","tag-striker","tag-verona"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30251,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30249\/revisions\/30251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}