{"id":1162,"date":"2016-01-08T09:44:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T01:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/08\/racist-chants-against-neymar-land-spanish-soccer-club-in-hot-water\/"},"modified":"2016-01-08T09:44:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T01:44:08","slug":"racist-chants-against-neymar-land-spanish-soccer-club-in-hot-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/08\/racist-chants-against-neymar-land-spanish-soccer-club-in-hot-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Racist chants against Neymar land Spanish soccer club in hot water"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Neymar\"<\/p>\n

\"Feed-tw\"<\/a>\"Feed-fb\"<\/a><\/div>\n

This time it’s not a stunt<\/a><\/p>\n

Spanish soccer club Espanyol faces possible sanctions after its fans allegedly directed racist abuse at Brazilian soccer superstar Neymar, who plays club ball for FC Barcelona, in a match last weekend<\/p>\n

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See also: ‘Meth Curry’ and the casual cruelty of Internet memes<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Liga Nacional de F\u00fatbol Profesional (LFP), Spain’s pro soccer league, announced Thursday that it has reported Espanyol to Spain’s anti-violence commission due to fan behavior last Saturday, according to the AFP<\/a><\/p>\n

The LFP report says fans directed monkey chants at Neymar after he was called offsides early in the match, according to the AFP. It is unfortunately not uncommon<\/a> for pro soccer players of African descent in Europe to be abused with racist insults during matches Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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This time it’s not a stunt Spanish soccer club Espanyol faces possible sanctions after its fans allegedly directed racist abuse at Brazilian soccer superstar Neymar, who plays club ball for FC Barcelona, in a match last weekend See also: ‘Meth … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,1,713,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-other","category-soccer","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}