Soccer: Mourinho two-match ban upheld

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 10 - José Mourinho's two-match ban for insulting an official in Roma's match against Cremonese recently was upheld on Friday.
    Italian soccer's appeals court rejected an appeal against the ban by the Giallorossi.
    An Italian Soccer Federation (FIGC) tribunal last Saturday suspended the two-match touchline ban Mourinho was given after getting a red card for a row with a match official in his side's 2-1 defeat at Cremonese on the previous Tuesday, pending the outcome of the appeal.
    The ruling meant Mourinho wias the bench for Roma's Serie A match against Juventus at the Stadio Olimpico Sunday, which the home side won 1-0.
    During the Cremonese defeat, referee Marco Piccinini gave Mourinho a red card after the coach had an angry verbal tussle with fourth official, Marco Serra.
    The Italian Soccer Federation's prosecutor has opened a sporting probe into the incident.
    After the match Mourinho said he was considering legal action, saying that "I don't want to think" that there was a connection between Serra being from Turin and Mourinho getting a ban for Roma's home match against Turin giants Juventus.
    He suggested he had been provoked by something Serra said.
    (ANSA).