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Lloris gets 20-month driving ban
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France鈥檚 World Cup-winning captain Hugo Lloris has been banned from driving for 20 months and fined after pleading guilty to a charge of drink driving, British media reported yesterday.
The 31-year-old Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper admitted being more than twice above the drink-drive limit of 35 micrograms when he was stopped by police in central London last month.
Lloris, who won the World Cup with France in July, was fined 50,000 pounds (US$65,130) at Westminster Magistrates鈥 court.
Prosecutor Henry Fitch said police found Lloris in an unmarked car driving at 15mph in a 30mph zone.
The court heard that Lloris veered his car 鈥渢owards parked vehicles鈥 before correcting himself and went through a red light.
David Sonn, defending, said the 鈥渟pectacular fall from grace鈥 was not lost on Lloris.
鈥淥n July 15 he was arguably the proudest man on the planet (having captained France to a World Cup triumph),鈥 Sonn was quoted as saying by the BBC.
鈥淛ust 40 days later, he was arrested. He experienced the indignity of being handcuffed and put in a police station overnight.鈥
Magistrate Amanda Barron, who could have jailed the star for six months, said it was 鈥減ure luck鈥 that Lloris did not cause damage to other vehicles or pedestrians.
Joshua Harris, director of campaigns for British road safety charity Brake, said it was disappointing to see a role model such as Lloris admitting to breaking the law by drink driving.
鈥淲e expect the captain of Tottenham Hotspur and his national team to be setting a good example, not flouting the law in such a manner,鈥 Harris said in a statement.
鈥淭his kind of dangerous behavior is selfish, illegal and puts lives at risk.鈥
Lloris, who joined Spurs from Olympique Lyonnais in 2012, apologized for the incident after he was charged by the Metropolitan Police last month.
鈥淚 wish to apologize wholeheartedly to my family, the club, my teammates, the manager and all of the supporters,鈥 Lloris said in his statement. 鈥淒rink-driving is completely unacceptable, I take full responsibility for my actions and it is not the example I wish to set.鈥
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