{"id":24115,"date":"2024-03-14T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/vinicius-junior-real-madrid-forward-calls-on-uefa-to-punish-atletico-madrid-fans-over-racist-chants-football-news\/14\/03\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-03-14T13:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T17:00:12","slug":"vinicius-junior-real-madrid-forward-calls-on-uefa-to-punish-atletico-madrid-fans-over-racist-chants-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/vinicius-junior-real-madrid-forward-calls-on-uefa-to-punish-atletico-madrid-fans-over-racist-chants-football-news\/14\/03\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinicius Junior: Real Madrid forward calls on UEFA to punish Atletico Madrid fans over racist chants | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-component-name=\"sdc-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>Real Madrid star Vinicius Junior has called on UEFA to issue sanctions over\u00a0racist chants about him by Atletico Madrid fans.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazil forward was the target of chants by Atletico fans prior to their Champions League last-16 match against Inter Milan on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>He replied to a post on X, formerly Twitter, about the chanting and wrote: &#8220;I hope you have already thought about their punishment UEFA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a sad reality that even happens in games where I&#8217;m not present!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>UEFA has not commented on the matter at this stage. Official reports from the match will be received and reviewed on Thursday, before any decision is taken regarding disciplinary action.<\/p>\n<p>Atletico fans have engaged in racist chants towards Vinicius in the past, including at a Madrid derby in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA president Gianni Infantino met with Vinicius last summer after the player was a repeated target for racist abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Infantino labelled racists as &#8220;criminals&#8221; and said football&#8217;s authorities had to &#8220;shoulder responsibility&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Last month Infantino called for a more joined-up approach to tackling racism in football, and called on all of FIFA&#8217;s 211 member associations to take a united stance.<\/p>\n<p>He called for a &#8220;strong resolution&#8221; on racism when FIFA&#8217;s members meet for the organisation&#8217;s next congress in Bangkok in May.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/12040\/13094666\/vinicius-junior-real-madrid-forward-calls-on-uefa-to-punish-atletico-madrid-fans-over-racist-chants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid star Vinicius Junior has called on UEFA to issue sanctions over&nbsp;racist chants about him by Atletico Madrid fans. The Brazil<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/vinicius-junior-real-madrid-forward-calls-on-uefa-to-punish-atletico-madrid-fans-over-racist-chants-football-news\/14\/03\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[378,1130,960,308,313,5718,379,33,4569,2483,887,481,1795],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24117,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24115\/revisions\/24117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}