Como have accused Wolves of blowing “out of proportion” an alleged incident of racist abuse of their pleasant on Monday, after one in every of their gamers in contrast Hwang Hee-chan to the martial arts stuntman Jackie Chan.
Hwang considers the comment derogatory and it’s understood this was not the primary time in his profession that the South Korea ahead has been likened to the actor, who’s from Hong Kong. Wolves contemplated abandoning the match, which was performed behind closed doorways in Marbella.
Como, promoted to Serie A final season, have sought to defend the actions of their participant. In an announcement their director Mirwan Suwarso, talking on behalf of the possession group, stated: “Our membership doesn’t tolerate racism and condemns all types of it within the strongest doable manner. We spoke to the defender in query to know what was stated. He has informed us the remark he made, to his co defender, was: ‘Ignore him, he thinks he’s Jackie Chan.’
“Having spoken to our participant at size, we’re assured this was in reference to the participant’s identify, and to the fixed references of ‘Channy’ made by his personal teammates on the pitch.
“So far as our membership is worried our participant didn’t say something in a derogatory method. We’re disillusioned that the response of sure Wolves gamers has seen the incident blown out of proportion.”
The incident occurred halfway by way of the second half, triggering Daniel Podence to punch an opponent and obtain a crimson card, however Hwang insisted Wolves full the sport with 10 males. Wolves gained 1-0 courtesy of a Matt Doherty header.
“Channy heard a racist comment which is absolutely disappointing,” the Wolves supervisor, Gary O’Neil, stated. “I spoke to Channy about it, checked whether or not he wished to take the crew off or come off himself, however he was eager the crew carried on and obtained the work they wanted. He knew it was a pre-season journey and he wished the lads to work and get their minutes, regardless that he’d suffered one thing vastly offensive.”
Wolves stated they’d lodge a proper criticism to Uefa however the governing physique stated the matter fell outdoors its jurisdiction.
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“The struggle to eradicate racism, discrimination and intolerance from soccer is a significant precedence for our organisation,” a spokesperson stated. “Whereas Uefa will proceed its struggle to eradicate all types of discrimination in soccer, the organisation’s disciplinary our bodies can solely take motion for incidents that happen in Uefa competitions.”
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