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Mexico’s national federation has suspended Carlos Vela and Efrain Juarez for six months and fined 11 other players for violating its code of conduct.

Arsenal striker Vela and Celtic midfielder Juarez were also fined £2,500 each following an incident in Monterray earlier this month.

The players threw a party at the team hotel in Monterrey after a friendly match against Colombia on September 7.

The punishments were announced at a news conference Tuesday by Nestor de La Torre, the director of national team selections for Mexico.

Vela and Juarez will be unable to play for Mexico until mid-March if the suspensions re enforced. Mexico has at least one match in that span as they are scheduled to play a friendly in early February, during the first of FIFA’s international fixture dates of 2011.

The players fined were Rafael Marquez, Javier Hernandez, Giovanni dos Santos, Guillermo Ochoa, Francisco Rodriguez, Carlos Salcido, Andres Guardado, Gerardo Torrado, Pablo Barrera, Hector Esqueda and Hector Moreno.

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