EPL player gets long ban for racist joke about teammate: what happened
Rodrigo Bentancourt will miss 7 matches and pay a fine.
Midfielder “Tottenham” Rodrigo Bentancourt received a severe punishment for making racist remarks against his teammate Son Heung-min.
The English Football Association (FA) disqualified the 27-year-old Uruguayan for 7 matches and fined him 100,000 pounds, journalist Ben Jacobs reports.
The scandalous incident happened back in June of this year, when Bentancourt participated in a talk show on Uruguayan television. During the broadcast, the TV host asked Rodrigo for Son Heung-min's t-shirt, to which he jokingly replied that he could bring Son's cousin's t-shirt, who is “on the same page” as him.
Despite an apology from Bentancourt, Son's own words that he was not offended and the club's official statement that there was no conflict, the FA opened a case against the midfielder and decided…
