Evergrande skipper fined for snubbing referee handshake


  • Football
  • Wednesday, 05 Jul 2017

FILE PHOTO: Zheng Zhi, captain of China's Guangzhou Evergrande, speaks during a news conference ahead of the Club World Cup, in Agadir December 16, 2013. REUTERS/Youssef Boudlal/Files

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Guangzhou Evergrande captain Zheng Zhi has been fined 100,000 yuan ($14,716) by the club for not leading his players to an end-of-game handshake with the referee following Sunday's Chinese Super League defeat at Tianjin Quanjian.

The six-times Chinese champions lost 4-3 to suffer a first league defeat in 13 games as the Fabio Cannavaro-coached Tianjin ended Evergrande's 11-game winning run.

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