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The match between Paris Saint-Germain and Istanbul Basaksehir, on the last day of the Champions League group stage, is suspended at this time due to the two teams leaving the match over a racist comment.
In the 13th minute, the match referee, Romanian Ovidiu Hategan, sent off a member of Basaksehir’s coaching staff, who complained about a racist comment by the fourth official, fellow Romanian Sebastian Coltescu.
🚨Drama in the park of the princes!
Basaksehir and PSG players leave the court.
Apparently the 4th referee would have made a racist comment to a player from Istanbulpic.twitter.com/mn97yO1MIR
– Fernando Escobar (@ Baresco_09) December 8, 2020
The expelled was the Cameroonian Pierre Webo, who played in Uruguay with Nacional and with Osasuna in Spain. According to Webo, the fourth judge referred to a member of his team as “that black player”, for which the Turkish team decided to leave the court.
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The fourth official, the also Romanian Sebastian Coltescu assures that he has not called him “black” in the derogatory sense, but “black guy”. But the explanation does not convince the players of the Turkish team, who reproach the fourth official for using the color of the skin to identify the player. “Why when you refer to a white man, don’t you call him the white boy?” They reproached him.
The fourth official defended himself by ensuring that in his language the word “black” does not have racist connotations. Faced with the commotion generated, and despite the intervention of the UEFA delegate, the players of both teams headed to the changing rooms.
“The fourth official has said ‘black’ in front of everyone! If the fourth official is withdrawn from the game, we will play again. If he is still on the court, then Basaksehir will not return,” Göksel Gümüsdag told the Turkish television channel TRT Sport.
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The Turkish club posted on its Twitter account a trill showing the No to racism logo.
Uefa had announced that the match would resume at 4 in the afternoon, Colombian time. However, he later said that the game was suspended and new determinations are expected.
News in development.
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