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Wonder what they did?

The Chilean FA have banned six international players for 20 games each for bad behaviour during the Copa America.

Captain Jorge Valdivia, striker Reinaldo Navia, and defensive trio Jorge Vargas, Rodrigo Tello and Pablo Contreras were involved in an incident at the team hotel when celebrating qualification for the quarter-finals.

Chile went on to lose 6-1 to Brazil in the last eight.

The Chilean FA later found out a sixth squad member was also involved - Alvaro Ormeno, who played for Argentinian outfit Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata last season.

The bans were revealed by the governing body's general manager Gustavo Camelio, who read a statement at a press conference.

"The Chilean FA board met on Tuesday and, after being notified about what happened on July 5 in one of the Hotel Mara Inn rooms in Puerto Ordaz, decided to ban each of the players involved for 20 international matches of the Chile national team.

"They will not be given any prize money for their participation in the 2007 Copa America," he added, referring to the US$180,000 (A$208,000) each member of the squad was to be given.

"Finally, as long as this board remain at the helm, none of them will be able to captain the national team."