{"id":2963,"date":"2024-02-17T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=2963"},"modified":"2024-02-17T12:39:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T12:39:15","slug":"bayern-munich-condemns-racial-abuse-sent-to-defender-dayot-upamecano-after-champions-league-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=2963","title":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich Condemns Racial Abuse Sent To Defender Dayot Upamecano After Champions League Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bayern Munich has \u201cstrongly condemn[ed]\u201d\u00a0racist abuse\u00a0directed at defender Dayot Upamecano following the team\u2019s\u00a0Champions League\u00a0defeat against Lazio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Upamecano was sent off in the second half of Wednesday\u2019s round of 16 game for a challenge in the penalty box on Gustav Isaksen, after which Ciro Immobile scored the subsequent spot-kick for Lazio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gettyimages-2011196245-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gettyimages-2011196245-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gettyimages-2011196245-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gettyimages-2011196245-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gettyimages-2011196245-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gettyimages-2011196245-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gettyimages-2011196245-1140x641.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gettyimages-2011196245.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That proved to be the decisive moment in the game as the Italian side went on to win 1-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the match, racist comments were left on the 25-year-old Upamecano\u2019s Instagram page, including verbal abuse and monkey and gorilla emojis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFC Bayern strongly condemn the racist comments being directed towards Dayot Upamecano on social media,\u201d the club&nbsp;said&nbsp;in a statement posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnyone who comments hateful words such as these is no fan of our club. We\u2019re all behind you, Upa!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"731\" height=\"449\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Untitled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Untitled.jpg 731w, https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Untitled-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bayern said that Upamecano doesn\u2019t want to comment on the abuse at the moment. CNN has also contacted Meta, which owns Instagram, for a response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bayern had 17 shots against Lazio but failed to get one on target, falling to a second defeat in five days after losing 3-0 against Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The back-to-back defeats increase the pressure on manager Thomas Tuchel, and Bayern will be looking to turn around the tie against Lazio when the sides meet for the second leg in Munich on March 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOf course, we\u2019re frustrated and angry about the defeat,\u201d said Tuchel. \u201cI don\u2019t know why, but we lost the plot at halftime. We lost the game, it wasn\u2019t that Lazio won it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was a good first half. We had one great chance to score and two normal ones. But we ended up with no shots on goal and that means you can\u2019t score either.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-9de75f431874cf7e9ca4478eaf6717ff ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB1l0wBm1Gg?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bayern, a six-time European champion, has failed to progress beyond the last 16 of the Champions League just once since the 2010\/11 season, losing to Liverpool in the 2018\/19 knockout rounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five points behind Leverkusen in the Bundesliga, the club is also in danger of failing to win the German domestic league for the first time in 12 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source: CNN<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayern Munich has \u201cstrongly condemn[ed]\u201d\u00a0racist abuse\u00a0directed at defender Dayot Upamecano following the team\u2019s\u00a0Champions League\u00a0defeat against Lazio. Upamecano was sent off in the second half of Wednesday\u2019s round of 16 game for a challenge in the penalty box on Gustav Isaksen, after which Ciro Immobile scored the subsequent spot-kick for Lazio. That proved to be the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,11,22],"tags":[923,924,922,925],"class_list":["post-2963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-sports","category-world","tag-bayern-munich","tag-champions-league","tag-dayot-upamecano","tag-lazio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2967,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions\/2967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}