{"id":12351,"date":"2025-06-24T19:38:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T23:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/fifa-investigates-cabral-pachuca-for-alleged-racism-towards-rudiger-real-madrid\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T19:38:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T23:38:49","slug":"fifa-investigates-cabral-pachuca-for-alleged-racism-towards-rudiger-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/fifa-investigates-cabral-pachuca-for-alleged-racism-towards-rudiger-real-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Investigates Cabral (Pachuca) for Alleged Racism Towards R\u00fcdiger (Real Madrid)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FIFA Opens Disciplinary Investigation Against Gustavo Cabral for Incident with R\u00fcdiger<\/h2>\n\n\nFIFA has announced the opening of disciplinary proceedings against Pachuca player Gustavo Cabral, following an incident with Real Madrid defender Antonio R\u00fcdiger during the Club World Cup match. The incident, which occurred last Sunday, triggered the anti-discrimination protocol.\n\nAccording to a FIFA statement, after analyzing the match reports, the Disciplinary Committee has initiated proceedings against Cabral in relation to the incident with R\u00fcdiger, during the match played in Charlotte on June 22.\n\nThe match referee, Ramon Abatti, activated the anti-discrimination protocol by crossing his forearms in front of his chest in the fifth minute of added time, after a brief altercation following an apparent foul on R\u00fcdiger, a German international.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0624%2Fr1510866_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"FIFA has opened disciplinary proceedings against Pachuca player Gustavo Cabral.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>FIFA ha abierto un expediente disciplinario contra el jugador del Pachuca, Gustavo Cabral.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nReal Madrid coach Xabi Alonso was asked in a post-match press conference whether R\u00fcdiger had been the victim of racism. Alonso replied: &#8220;That&#8217;s what R\u00fcdiger said, and we believe him.&#8221;\n\nThe FIFA did not specify the nature of the disciplinary action to be taken.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>There was nothing racist. I called him &#8216;cag\u00f3n&#8217; as we say in Argentina, that&#8217;s all.<\/p><cite>Gustavo Cabral<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nCabral denied having uttered racist insults against the Real Madrid defender.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA Opens Disciplinary Investigation Against Gustavo Cabral for Incident with R\u00fcdiger FIFA has announced the opening of disciplinary proceedings against Pachuca player Gustavo Cabral, following an incident with Real Madrid defender Antonio R\u00fcdiger during the Club World Cup match. The incident, which occurred last Sunday, triggered the anti-discrimination protocol. According to a FIFA statement, after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[4694,957,2277,4695],"class_list":{"0":"post-12351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-cabral","9":"tag-fifa","10":"tag-racism","11":"tag-rudiger"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}