Tottenham lose Bentancur ban enchantment for racist remark about South Koreans | Soccer Information

The English Soccer Affiliation reject Tottenham’s enchantment to cut back Rodrigo Bentancur’s ban for racist comment.

Tottenham have misplaced their enchantment in opposition to the severity of Uruguay midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur’s seven-match ban for making an offensive remark about South Koreans in relation to a comment about Spurs teammate Son Heung-min.

The Soccer Affiliation stated Tuesday that Spurs’ enchantment was dismissed following a listening to and the sanction stands, with the explanations for the choice revealed quickly.

Bentancur has already been suspended for 5 home video games, and can miss the English League Cup quarterfinal match in opposition to Manchester United on Thursday in addition to the go to of Liverpool within the Premier League on Sunday.

Showing on a Uruguayan tv present in June, Bentancur was requested for a Tottenham participant’s jersey and replied, “Sonny’s?” He added it might be Son’s cousin, too, as a result of “roughly they’re all the identical.”

Bentancur later apologised to Son on Instagram, saying it was a “very unhealthy joke” and he would “by no means disrespect you or damage you.” Son accepted the apology.

Particulars of the choice launched by the unbiased fee confirmed that Bentancur defined his feedback “had been sarcastic and a mild rebuke” for the journalist calling his teammate “The Korean” and that he challenged the reporter’s description of Son.

In its conclusions, the regulatory fee, nonetheless, wrote that “even on the premise of the participant’s proof and submissions, we contemplate the participant’s conduct in utilizing the phrases he did, within the full context during which they had been used, was clearly abusive and insulting, and would quantity to misconduct.”

The fee added that it additionally took into consideration the truth that Bentancur didn’t intend to offend Son or anybody else.

Bentancur was additionally issued with a positive of $126,000 by the fee.

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Sourcing information and pictures from aljazeera.com

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