{"id":19574,"date":"2026-05-08T19:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/19574\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T19:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:53:14","slug":"real-madrid-fines-valverde-tchouameni-combined-1-2m-for-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/19574\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid fines Valverde, Tchouameni combined $1.2M for fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

May 8 (UPI) — Real Madrid fined Federico Valverde and Aurelien Tchouameni $589,000 apiece for a fight at their training ground, the La Liga club announced Friday.<\/p>\n

The incident occurred Thursday and led to Valverde being treated at a hospital for a cut on his head. Madrid said Thursday that he also was diagnosed with a cranioencephalic trauma<\/a>, or traumatic brain injury, and will not play Sunday against Barcelona. Valverde was sent home to rest for 10 to 14 days.\n<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Madrid conducted disciplinary proceedings, which included an investigator, for Valverde and Tchouameni.<\/p>\n

“During their appearance, the players expressed their complete remorse for what happened and apologized to each other,” Madrid said.<\/p>\n

“Under these circumstances, Real Madrid has decided to impose a financial penalty of 500,000 euros on each player, thereby concluding the corresponding internal procedures,” Madrid said.<\/p>\n

Valverde totaled 11 goals and 13 assists over 54 appearances this year for Madrid. Tchouameni totaled two goals and two assists over over 52 appearances.<\/p>\n

Barcelona will host Madrid in El Clasico at 3 p.m. EDT Sunday in Barcelona. Barcelona can clinch La Liga by avoiding a loss in the rivalry matchup.\n<\/p>\n

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\t\t Lionel Messi of Argentina celebrates with the FIFA World Cup trophy after Argentina’s 2022 FIFA World Cup Final win — its third tournament trophy — at Lusail Stadium in Lusail City, Qatar, on December 18, 2022. Photo by Chris Brunskill\/UPI | License Photo<\/a>\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 8 (UPI) — Real Madrid fined Federico Valverde and Aurelien Tchouameni $589,000 apiece for a fight at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8180,10585,10583,2319,10582,82,10580,10584,2735,10581,10586],"class_list":{"0":"post-19574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-madrid","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-baseball-news","10":"tag-basketball-news","11":"tag-football-news","12":"tag-latest-sports-results","13":"tag-madrid","14":"tag-real-madrid-fines-valverde-tchouameni-combined-12m-fight","15":"tag-sporting-events","16":"tag-sports-news","17":"tag-united-press-international","18":"tag-upi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}