{"id":385,"date":"2026-03-02T03:12:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T03:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=385"},"modified":"2026-03-02T03:12:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T03:12:27","slug":"the-anti-scratch-protocol-activated-at-espanyol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=385","title":{"rendered":"The anti-scratch protocol activated at Espanyol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Two weeks after the alleged racist incident in Lisbon with Giovanni Prestianni and Vinicius Junior that forced the activation of the anti-racism protocol in Benfica &#8211; Real Madrid in the UEFA Champions League, the same event occurred in Elche &#8211; Espanyol with Omar el Hilali and Rafa Mir as the protagonist. <\/p>\n<p>The 78th minute of the game was passing when <strong>Omar el Hilali ran to alert Iosu Galech<\/strong>referee of the crash, that he had received an alleged racist insult from Mir. The referee stopped the match to hear the Moroccan full-back&#8217;s version. A minute and a half later, <strong>Galech made the gesture of crossing his arms to indicate the activation of the anti-racism protocol. <\/strong>After a three-minute pause and announcing the news over the public address system, the clash continued. <\/p>\n<div class=\"section\">\n<h2 class=\"ladillo\">Rafa Mir ended up being Elche&#8217;s hero with the tie in the 90th minute<\/h2>\n<p>As Galech himself says in the minutes; <strong>&#8221;none of the members of the match&#8217;s refereeing body heard an insult&#8221;<\/strong>so they could not act in the form of a red card or expulsion to the Elche player. Galech points out that the insult El Hilali refers to is &#8220;you came in a boat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Minutes later, a penalty by Carlos Romero ended Rafa Mir&#8217;s final tie. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks after the alleged racist incident in Lisbon with Giovanni Prestianni and Vinicius Junior<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}