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The Champions League match played on Tuesday night in Paris between Paris Saint-Germain and Istanbul Basaksehir was interrupted in the thirteenth minute of the first half, after the fourth official – one of the assistant referees – was accused of using a racist word. to refer to a technical assistant of the Turkish team. The fourth Romanian Sebastian Coltescu referred to as “the black” (using the Romanian expression “ala negru”) is Pierre Webo, one of the assistants to Turkish coach Okan Buruk. After many minutes of discussion, the players of the two teams decided to leave the field. The match was suspended and then postponed until Wednesday.
BREAKING: THE diallogue between the referees in its entirety: ‘The black man over there. Go and see who it is. The black over there, it is not possible to act like that #PSGBAS pic.twitter.com/5ZUQfcEIkG
– Emanuel Rosu (@Emishor) December 8, 2020
It got ugly at the PSG game. Claims of racism pic.twitter.com/RiuboeOMZl
– t. (@afc_titi) December 8, 2020
Pierre Webo, a former Cameroonian soccer player, accused Coltescu of having called him “black” to indicate to the referee, Ovidiu Hațegan, that he wanted to expel him for protests. Webo then protested to Coltescu asking him why he was using a racist word and an argument broke out involving Basaksehir and PSG players. Senegalese Demba Ba intervened first and then Brazilian Neymar and Frenchman Mbappé to ask what had happened to the referee, who finally decided to suspend the match permanently in the 24th minute. Initially, it seemed that the match could have been restarted after the replacement of Coltescu by the fifth man, the Italian Mariani, but it seems that the Basaksehir 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 at 18.55, from the minute of play in which it was suspended on Tuesday, with another referee team. 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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