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Sat 07 Jul 2006Rooney gets two-match banWayne Rooney received a two-match ban by Fifa for stamping on Ricardo Carvalho in England's World Cup quarter-final defeat by Portugal.The governing body found the 20-year-old striker guilty of violent conduct despite the English Football Association and the striker himself arguing his case.