{"id":821,"date":"2026-03-19T05:51:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T05:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=821"},"modified":"2026-03-19T05:51:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T05:51:28","slug":"gio-rejects-the-accusation-of-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=821","title":{"rendered":"Gio rejects the accusation of racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid player <strong>Gio Queiroz Garbelini <\/strong>has denied having called her rival Fatou Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 &#8220;black&#8221; in the Queen&#8217;s Cup semi-final, an accusation that the Costa Adeje Tenerife players had made after the brawl that marked the last minutes of Tuesday&#8217;s tie.<\/p>\n<p>In that final phase of the match a series of incidents occurred, particularly after <strong>Fatou will push from behind <\/strong>and knocked down an Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid player with the stopped ball, a fact that <strong>earned him immediate expulsion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>At that moment a brawl formed and after a few minutes of tension and heated verbal exchanges, referee Olatz Rivera decreed the <strong>anti-racist protocol <\/strong>because, according to the match report, Noelia Ramos, goalkeeper of Costa Adeje Tenerife, told him that Gio had called Fatou Dembele \u201cblack\u201d, although the referee team did not hear it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to make it clear that at no time did I utter the word <em>negra<\/em> nor did I carry out any type of racist demonstration,&#8221; the Brazilian declared on her social networks this Wednesday. &#8220;I categorically reject any act of racism and <strong>It hurts me deeply that my name is being associated with such a serious lie.<\/strong>. I fully trust that the investigation that is being carried out will clarify the truth of what happened,&#8221; adds the 22-year-old forward, who also has Spanish nationality.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I sincerely appreciate the support received from my teammates, the club, my family and all the people who know me and know what I am like both on and off the field,&#8221; concludes the Atleti youth player.<\/p>\n<p>The Madrid team won the second leg 0-1 and 0-2 on aggregate, qualifying for the final of the Queen&#8217;s Cup.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid player Gio Queiroz Garbelini has denied having called her rival Fatou<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-821","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\/821","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=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}