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UEFA has imposed a sanction of 15,000 euros on Real Madrid for the fascist salute given by one of its fans in the stands of the Bernab\u00e9u during the second leg against Benfica of the Champions League round of 32 play-off. In addition, European football’s highest body has warned it of a possible partial closure during a match if similar acts occur again next year.<\/p>\n
“The UEFA Control, Ethics and Disciplinary Body (CEDB) decides to fine Real Madrid CF with 15,000 euros and order the partial closure of the stadium <\/strong>(i.e. 500 adjacent seats of the lower south stand) during the next UEFA club competition match in which Real Madrid plays at home, for example the racist and\/or discriminatory behavior of their fans<\/strong>“, the European organization stated in a statement. <\/p>\n However, this partial closure of the Madrid stadium “is suspended for a trial period of one year, from the date of this decision”, so it remains only a warning for the future. <\/p>\n During the match against Benfica, a Real Madrid fan was expelled from the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u at the start of the match for making the Nazi salute repeatedly<\/strong>as captured by television cameras. The white team also announced that it began the permanent expulsion of the member. <\/p>\n “Real Madrid announces that it has urgently asked the club’s Disciplinary Commission to initiate an immediate expulsion procedure for the member who has been captured by television cameras doing the Nazi salute in the area where the Animation Stand is located<\/strong>moments before the start of the match between Real Madrid and Benfica,” the club said in a statement. <\/p>\n The capital team confirmed that the man was forced to leave his place in the stands immediately. “This member was located by the club’s security members moments after he appeared on the broadcast and was immediately expelled from the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u stadium,” they added. <\/p>\n “He Real Madrid condemns this type of gestures and expressions<\/strong> that incite violence and hatred in sport and in society”, concluded the note about the incident in a stand that, before the game, displayed the message “No to racism. Respect” at the beginning, after Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior denounced Gianluca Prestianni’s racist insult in the first leg of the playoffs in Lisbon. <\/p>\n The events occurred during a match that was already marked by controversy over Prestiani’s racist insult to Vin\u00edcius<\/strong> in the first leg in Lisbon. The Argentine winger would have called the Brazilian a “monkey” on several occasions after the latter’s celebration after scoring 0-1.<\/p>\n Then, UEFA acted in the days following the duel and one day before the return match, decided to provisionally sanction the Benfica player with a match without playing, despite which, the club decided to have him travel to Madrid while awaiting the appeal that ended up being ruled out by the highest body in European football.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" UEFA has imposed a sanction of 15,000 euros on Real Madrid for the fascist salute<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","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\/501","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=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Madrid immediately expelled him from the field<\/h2>\n