Union's athletic trainer Paul Rushing was suspended an extra game for his role in the brawl late in the Union’s 2-1 win over New York City FC on Sunday at Subaru Park.
A few New York players thought Carranza was embellishing, most notably Nicolás Acevedo. He confronted Rushing, who pushed Acevedo back twice and offered a few choice words. Acevedo then gestured toward Rushing, Valentín Castellanos gave Rushing a shove, and the fracas erupted from there.Eventually, Rushing was able to attend to Carranza, then leave the field. As he was walking away, Villarreal showed him a red card.
Rushing will miss the Union’s games at Chicago on Wednesday and at Columbus on Sunday . His first game back on the bench will be the Union’s home contest against D.C. United on July 8, which happens to be nationally televised .Acevedo and the Union’s Dániel Gazdag and José Andrés Martinéz, for “inciting and/or escalating a mass confrontation.”
Martínez was also fined a second time for an obscene gesture toward the visiting fan section after the game.Both teams were fined for their second mass confrontation violation of the year, and Union manager Jim Curtin was fined individually. New York manager Nick Cushing was only warned, because he was not in charge when the club had its first violation.
Coincidentally — or perhaps not at this point — both teams’ first violations happened in the Union’s visit to NYCFC in March, when
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