ZURICH. June 5: Five top Athletlco Madrid soccer stars were banned for a total of 20 European Cup matches by UEFA here on Friday after a major bust-up with a referee, reports AFP.

And Spanish club president Jesus Gil was also banned for six games after the Incident in the Cup Winners' Cup semifinal against Parma, who went on to win the tournament.

Juan Rodriguez Herrera (six matches). Bemd Schuster (five). Pedro Renones (4), Antonio Munoz (3) and Juan Vizcaino (2 matches) were all banned after they jostled German referee Aaron Schmidhuber after the end of the second leg match on April 22.

Madrid had three players sent off — two after the final whistle — but still won the match 1 -0, only to go out on the away goals rule after Parma had won the first clash at Madrid 2-1.

Italian club Juventus, who. won the UEFA Cup by defeating Borussia Dortmund, were also In trouble with the European body's disciplinary committee on Friday.

They were ordered to play their next European match at least 300 km (190 miles) away from their German side on May 19 was held up for six minutes, by fireworks thrown from the