In Real Sui Pachuca 3-1, the German defender reported racial injuries by the opponent Cabral, which he denied. And the race director makes the X with his arms …
Fifa opened an investigation after Antonio Rudiger’s statements, who at the end of the challenge won by Real 3-1 on Pachuca accused his opponent Antonio Cabral, of having addressed a racist insult of the furious reaction of German. And the Brazilian referee Roman Abatti Abel, after Rudiger’s reporting, was forced to activate the new FIFA protocol against racism: with his arms he formed the sign of the X who activates the procedure in case of racist insults, discriminatory or offenses of an ethnic, religious or sexual nature.
the investigation
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“Antonio told us, the protocol will be activated – explained the coach of Real Xabi Alonso -. An investigation is underway. If it really happened, all necessary measures must be taken, because it is something unacceptable. In football there is no tolerance for this”.
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But the author of the alleged racist gesture, the Argentine defender Gustavo Cabral, defended himself. “There was nothing racist. I called him a coward of M …, as we say in Argentina. That’s all,” said Cabral. And his coach, Jaime Lozano, said he was surprised: “We knew it from you – he told journalists – I have no explanations because it is the first time that I hear this story. I will talk about it with him, I have known him for a while and I have never heard that things like that happen with the Pachuca players”.
La Gazzetta dello Sport
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