{"id":79096,"date":"2025-11-21T05:19:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T05:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79096"},"modified":"2025-11-21T05:19:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T05:19:02","slug":"no-ban-for-adeyemi-as-kovac-dismisses-weapon-fine-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/21\/no-ban-for-adeyemi-as-kovac-dismisses-weapon-fine-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"No Ban for Adeyemi as Kovac Dismisses Weapon Fine Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Borussia Dortmund manager Niko Kovac says Germany forward Karim Adeyemi will not face sporting sanctions after being fined for attempting to illegally possess a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Kovac told reporters on Thursday that the club reviewed the matter and agreed Adeyemi would complete community service, stressing the incident would not affect his place in the squad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is no reason for me to ban him for the next few weeks,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Adeyemi reportedly purchased an online \u201cmystery box\u201d earlier in the year without knowing it contained items prohibited under German weapons law.<\/p>\n<p>Police later discovered the unopened package, leading to the fine.<\/p>\n<p>Kovac urged calm, saying he remains focused on football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not his father, but his coach. People should put things into perspective\u2026 The focus is clearly on the Bundesliga,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dortmund face VfB Stuttgart on Saturday after losing their last four league meetings to the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Borussia Dortmund manager Niko Kovac says Germany forward Karim Adeyemi will not face sporting sanctions after being fined for attempting to illegally possess a weapon. Kovac told reporters on Thursday that the club reviewed the matter and agreed Adeyemi would complete community service, stressing the incident would not affect his place in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79098,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79096\/revisions\/79098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}