LONDON (AP) Bernardo Silva will miss Manchester City’s trip to Chelsea after being banned for one game for posting a tweet which compared teammate Benjamin Mendy to the character on a packet of Conguitos chocolates.
The midfielder admitted to an "aggravated breach" of rules because the post referenced race.
He was also fined 50,000 pounds ($64,000) and ordered to complete face-to-face education. The Premier League game Silva misses at Chelsea is on Nov. 23, after the international break.
The FA commission accepted Silva “did not himself intend the post to be insulting or in any way racist” and was a “joke between close friends.