Tottenham star Rodrigo Bentancur handed seven-match ban over racist remark about teammate

Rodrigo Bentancur has been fixed a seven-match and a £100,000 good by the FA aft helium made a racist remark astir Tottenham teammate Son Heung-min.

The Football Association archetypal charged Bentancur successful September aft suggesting that each radical from South Korea ‘looked the same’ during an TV interrogation successful June.

The midfielder swiftly apologised for his comments, calling it ‘a precise atrocious joke’, with his apology accepted by Spurs skipper Son who besides skippers the South Korean nationalist team.

A connection from the FA connected Monday read: ‘An autarkic Regulatory Commission has imposed a seven-match suspension and £100,000 good connected Rodrigo Bentancur for a breach of FA Rule E3 successful narration to a media interview.

‘It was alleged that the Tottenham Hotspur midfielder breached FA Rule E3.1 arsenic helium acted successful an improper mode and/or utilized abusive and/or insulting words and/or brought the crippled into disrepute.

‘It was further alleged that this constitutes an “aggravated breach”, which is defined successful FA Rule E3.2, arsenic it included a notation – whether explicit oregon implied – to nationality and/or contention and/or taste origin.

‘Rodrigo Bentancur denied this charge, but the autarkic Regulatory Commission recovered it to beryllium proven and imposed his sanctions pursuing a hearing.’

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