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Tuesday’s Champions League Group H match in Paris between Paris Saint-Germain and Istanbul Basaksehir was stopped at 18.55, on the 13th of the first half, after a racist insult from the fourth official to a technical assistant of the Turkish team. The two teams, after 8 minutes of discussion, decided to leave the field after the assistant referee, the Romanian Sebastián Coltescu, said “black” (using the term “negru”, “black” in Romanian) for one of the substitutes. by Turkish coach Okan Buruk.
Here is the full scene of the incident:
referee goes to bench for expelling Başakşehir’s assistant, Webo, for protesting;
the fourth man points to it by saying ‘negru’ (which is ‘black’ in Romanian);
Webo asks why you mark it as ‘black’pic.twitter.com/ebCiE48OFd– Christopher Wright (@ Christo00793254) December 8, 2020
Coltescu allegedly directed the racist insult to Cameroonian technical assistant and former footballer Achille Webo to point it out to the referee, Ovidiu Hațegan, that he wanted to expel him for protests. At that time Webo protested to Coltescu asking him why he had called him “black” and a discussion arose in which players from Basaksehir and PSG intervened. First the Senegalese Demba Ba Basaksehir intervened and then the Brazilian Neymar and the French Mbappé to ask what had happened to the referee, who finally decided to suspend the match at 24. He would have proposed to replace Coltescu with the fifth man, the Italian Mariani, but the Basaksehir would have refused.
✊ ???? ✊ ???? NO TO RACISM | #Respect pic.twitter.com/Ic1BzfANoi
– Istanbul Başakşehir (@ ibfk2014) December 8, 2020
SAY NO TO RACISM. ❌❌❌
M.WEBO WE ARE WITH YOU. ✊ ????
– Kylian Mbappé (@ KMbappé) December 8, 2020
UEFA has opened an investigation into the matter and decided late in the afternoon that the match will continue on Wednesday night at 18.55, starting from the minute of play in which it was suspended on Tuesday, with another referee from the staff. . The Dutchman Danny Makkelie will direct the game, assisted by his compatriot Mario Diks and the Pole Marcin Boniek. The fourth official, Bartosch Frankowsky, will also be Polish. Italians Marco Di Bello and Maurizio Mariani have been confirmed in the VAR.
After consulting with both clubs, UEFA has made an extraordinary decision that the remaining minutes of the match will be played tomorrow with a new referee team. Kick-off is set at 18:55 CET.
– UEFA (@UEFAcom_it) December 8, 2020
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