{"id":26451,"date":"2025-08-20T05:12:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T09:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/tel-overcomes-racism-after-miss-tottenham-backs-player\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T05:12:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T09:12:53","slug":"tel-overcomes-racism-after-miss-tottenham-backs-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/tel-overcomes-racism-after-miss-tottenham-backs-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Tel overcomes racism after miss: Tottenham backs player."},"content":{"rendered":"Tottenham Hotspur player Mathys Tel has stated that he will not be defeated by the racist insults he suffered on social media.\n\nTel, 20 years old, was targeted after missing a penalty in Tottenham&#8217;s defeat to Paris Saint-Germain in last week&#8217;s UEFA Super Cup.\n\nThe club issued a statement expressing its &#8220;disgust&#8221; at the abuse.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0819%2Fr1534030_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Mathys Tel\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Mathys Tel fue objeto de insultos racistas tras fallar un penalti contra el Paris Saint-Germain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>In a message posted on Instagram on Tuesday, the French under-21 international, whose loan agreement from Bayern Munich was made permanent in a \u00a330 million deal in June, wrote:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Everyone, after the last few days have passed, I wanted to thank you all for your messages of support.<\/p><cite>Mathys Tel<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe footballer added:\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Racism has no place in our society. Every day is a learning curve and every day is a lesson. I know where I come from, where I started, and none of this will bring me down. With work and humility, respect reigns. Thank you all.<\/p><cite>Mathys Tel<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham Hotspur player Mathys Tel has stated that he will not be defeated by the racist insults he suffered on social media. Tel, 20 years old, was targeted after missing a penalty in Tottenham&#8217;s defeat to Paris Saint-Germain in last week&#8217;s UEFA Super Cup. The club issued a statement expressing its &#8220;disgust&#8221; at the abuse. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2123,4086,6056,949],"class_list":{"0":"post-26451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-mathys-tel","10":"tag-racial-abuse","11":"tag-tottenham"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26451","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=26451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}