Tottenham’s Rodrigo Bentancur may presumably be going thru a prolonged ban as the midfielder has been charged by the Football Association for the utilization of a racial slur about teammate Son Heung-min.
Tottenham Hotspur‘s Rodrigo Bentancur may presumably be going thru a prolonged ban as the midfielder has been charged by the Football Association for the utilization of a racial slur about teammate Son Heung-min.
Bentancur issued an apology in June after he gave the affect to counsel that every South Korean of us “look the same” in an interview with a Uruguayan TV build.
Asked by a presenter, sooner than Uruguay’s Copa The US advertising campaign, if he may presumably compose a shirt from Son, whom the journalist referred to as “the Korean one”, Bentancur replied: “Sonny’s? It could be Sonny’s cousin too as they all look the same.”
Bentancur’s sick-judged comments understandably drew frequent criticism on-line and the 27-year-conventional has since been handed an FA tag.
A press release from the FA acknowledged: “Rodrigo Bentancur has been charged with an alleged breach of FA Rule E3 for misconduct in the case of a media interview.
“It be alleged that the Tottenham Hotspur midfielder has breached FA Rule E3.1 as he acted in an harmful manner and/or primitive abusive and/or insulting words and/or introduced the game into disrepute.
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“It’s further alleged that this constitutes an “aggravated breach” which is defined in FA Rule E3.2, as it included a reference, whether express or implied, to nationality and/or race and/or ethnic origin.”
Based on talkSPORT, all ‘aggravated breaches’ which may presumably be a first offence raise a immediate match-based sanction of six to 12 fits.
The picture adds that Bentancur, who has till Thursday, September 19 to answer to his FA tag, will then delight in the different to settle for or issue any assorted punishments got.
The FA’s decision to tag Bentancur comes apt a pair of days sooner than Tottenham skedaddle to the Emirates Stadium for the North London derby against Arsenal in the Premier League, however the midfielder has been cleared to play in this fixture.
Bentancur and Son delight in been teammates at Tottenham since the old moved to North London in January 2022 after a four-and-half year spell in Italy with Juventus.
Spurs’ No.30 has made a total of 71 appearances for the membership across all competitions, along with one commence and one substitute time out in the starting up of the fresh Premier League season below Ange Postecoglou.
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