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FIFA fines Saifi over slap

16 September 2010-AAP

FIFA has hit Algeria striker Rafik Saifi with a 2,300 euro ($3,190) fine for slapping a woman journalist at the end of the Algeria v United States match at the World Cup.

Saifi struck out at Asma Halimi, a journalist with Algerian daily Competition, in an interview area in the wake of the match the Americans won 1-0.

Haili, who had written an article on Saifi some time before the incident, managed to get a slap of her own in before complaining to FIFA, world football's governing body.

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