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Football Association ban Kieran Trippier for 10 weeks for breaching betting rules

FA ban Trippier for 10 weeks for breaching betting rules
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His worldwide ban from all football and football-related activity will run until February 28.

Atletico Madrid and England defender Kieran Trippier has been banned for 10 weeks and fined £70,000 for breaching betting rules, the Football Association has announced.

The 30-year-old's worldwide ban from all football and football-related activity will run until February 28.

Trippier denied the charges, first made in May, and had a personal hearing in October.

However, the FA said that four of seven alleged breaches had been proven with three others dismissed.

An FA spokesperson said: "The Atletico Madrid defender denied seven alleged breaches of FA rule E8(1)(b), which were said to occur during July 2019, and requested a personal hearing.

"An independent regulatory commission was appointed to hear the case, with four of the alleged breaches found proven and three dismissed during a subsequent personal hearing.

"The independent regulatory commission's written reasons for its decisions and the associated sanction will be published in due course."

Trippier's ban takes force with immediate effect.

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Kieran Trippier has won 25 England caps (Anthony Devlin/PA)

The suspension will rule Trippier out of at least 14 matches for Atletico, including the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie against Chelsea on February 23.

The offences took place in July 2019 around the time that the former Burnley defender completed his move from Tottenham to Atletico for a fee in the region of £20million.

In a statement issued when he was first charged in May, Trippier said: "I want to make it clear that, while a professional footballer, I have at no stage placed any football-related bets or received any financial benefit from others betting."

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