MOSCOW, Oct 27, Pavel Levkovich. Football player of the Noginsk club «Znamya» Roman Pavlyuchenko was suspended for eight matches of the Second League following the meeting with Cosmos from Dolgoprudny, Artur Grigoryants, head of the Control and Disciplinary Committee of the Russian Football Union (FTC RFU), told reporters. 0. In the 80th minute, Pavlyuchenko was sent off after he touched the body of the referee Alexander Samsonov while trying to hit the opponent with his hand. , he struck a metal fence. After the match, he was waiting for the player (Artem) Kuzin and tried to exert physical pressure on him, grabbed him by the jersey and insulted him. We had two videos. Pavlyuchenko did not take part in the meeting, sent a letter that he acknowledges all the violations and asks for an apology. Nevertheless, the FTC made a decision: for unsportsmanlike behavior, physical impact on an opponent and offensive behavior towards an opponent, Pavlyuchenko should be disqualified for eight matches of the Second League and fined 10 thousand rubles, «Grigoryants said. This season the forward took part in nine matches of the Second League, in which he scored three goals. Pavlyuchenko is 40 years old. As part of the Moscow «Spartak» he became a three-time silver medalist of the championship of Russia and the owner of the Cup of the country. The striker also played for the capital's Lokomotiv, Krasnodar's Kuban, Yekaterinburg's Ural and London's Tottenham. Together with the Russian team, he became the bronze medalist of the 2008 European Championship.
