FRANKFURT, Germany (AFP) -- Germany international striker Lukas Podolski has been hit with a two-match friendly ban after lashing out at Blackburn Rovers' Georgian defender Zurab Khizanishvili.

A sports tribunal at the German Football Federation (DFB) on Monday banned Podolski for two games after he kicked Khizanishvili during the friendly against Georgia, which Germany won 2-0.

Since the incident -- which led to Podolski being sent off --occurred in a friendly, the ban does not rule the Bayern Munich striker out of Wednesday's Euro 2008 qualifier against Slovakia.