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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Jon Brodkin

Zidane left red-faced with five-game ban

Zinedine Zidane has been banned for five European matches for butting an opponent during Juventus's defeat by Hamburg on Tuesday.

The France midfielder received his second red card of the competition for slamming his forehead into the face of the defender Jochen Kientz. Zidane will miss the final first-phase match at Panathinaikos and two-thirds of the next group stage if Juventus qualify.

Rangers have been told by the Spanish referee Antonio Lopez Nieto that their appeal against his dismissal of Arthur Numan for two bookable offences during Wednesday's Champions League tie at Sturm Graz will fail.

Rangers will appeal to Uefa over the first caution for re- entering play without permission because television evidence appears to show Nieto waving for Numan to come on. But Nieto said: "Uefa contacted me on Thursday as I was returning from Austria and I told them my version of events. They seemed to accept what I said, that I didn't wave him on but was saying for him to wait. I cannot see how the decision will be changed."

Investigators have searched the home and offices of the former Bayer Leverkusen coach Christoph Daum after his positive drugs test.

"We are investigating him on suspicion of possessing cocaine," said Erich Jung, the chief state prosecutor in the western town of Koblenz. Jung added that investigators had seized written papers and computer data from Daum's office and other items from his home.

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