Zheng fined for ref handshake snub
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Guangzhou Evergrande captain Zheng Zhi has been fined 100,000 yuan (US$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-time Chinese champion lost 3-4 to suffer a first league defeat in 13 games as Fabio Cannavaro's Tianjin ended Evergrande's 11-game winning streak.
The defeat saw Guangzhou's lead over Shanghai SIPG reduced to a point as the season reached the halfway stage and China captain Zheng was reprimanded by the club for his reaction.
"We always require players and coaches to pay full respect to our opponents and to referees," Guangzhou said in a statement on the club's website.
"On 2 July 2017, during our away game against Tianjin Quanjjan, Zheng Zhi failed to comply with the club regulations and failed to be the leading example to the team."
The move follows a series of sanctions handed out by the Chinese Football Association in recent weeks, with SIPG striker Oscar handed an eight-game ban for initiating a mass brawl.
The Brazil midfielder's teammates Hulk and Wu Lei were also handed two-match bans, along with coach Andre Villas-Boas, for protesting Oscar's punishment.
Also, a second-division club was ordered to play a home match behind closed doors after four match officials were attacked following a controversial draw.
Police are investigating who beat up the referee and his assistants after the power was mysteriously cut on Saturday in their changing room at Baoding Rongda's stadium.
Baoding Rongda, a club near Beijing, is at the bottom of the second tier and was infuriated when referee Huang Xiang added seven minutes of injury time at the end of a game that it was leading 2-1 against Wuhan Zall.
Home players and fans were further riled when Huang awarded Wuhan a debatable penalty in stoppage time, which the visitors converted to snatch a draw.
The CFA said Baoding players and staff angrily confronted Huang afterwards on the pitch. The referee and his assistants had to be escorted off by security personnel as fans pelted them with debris.
The club was ordered to play a game behind closed doors and its Dutch head coach Johannes Bonfrere was banned from the bench for two matches for berating the referee.
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