PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidadian Pro League club San Juan Jabloteh has been slapped with a US$5 000 fine and their home venue has been put on six months probation, following an ugly brawl at the end of a Caribbean Football Union Club Champions match last month.

Striker Cyrano Glen, who was sent off in the ill-tempered affair against Puerto Rico’s River Plate at the Larry Gomes Stadium, was also punished for his role in the melee with a two-match ban and a fine of US$500.

This comes in the wake of investigations carried out by the Caribbean Football Union Disciplinary Committee after a match report was submitted following the April 18 bust-up.

Overall, the CFU dished out US$23 500 in fines to both clubs and players involved in the fracas which tainted the Group D clash that Jabloteh won 1-0 on a Jason Marcano strike.
River Plate was handed the heavier fine of US$10 000 while their coach, Argentine Fabian Zermatten and five of his players were slapped with a total of US$8 000 in sanctions.

In addition River Plate had been placed on probation for the remainder of the season.

Zermatten was suspended for five matches and fined US$ 2 000 while Lucas Masilla will pay out $2 000 and faces a six-month suspension.

Jose Rodriguez has been hit with $1 000 fine and a three-match suspension; Raul Oswaldo Ruiz, a $2 000 fine and five-match suspension; Maximiliano Vallejo, a $500 fine and three-match suspension and Jorge Alfredo Gonzales, a similar fine and a two-match suspension.

Glen and the River Plate trio of Vallejos, Ruiz and Gonzales had been all red-carded by Jamaican referee Courtney Campbell during the contest.

Both clubs have 14 days in which to pay their fines.