{"id":39506,"date":"2026-03-02T02:47:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/racism-protocol-instigated-by-referee-in-la-liga-game-between-elche-and-espanyol\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T02:47:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:47:05","slug":"racism-protocol-instigated-by-referee-in-la-liga-game-between-elche-and-espanyol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/racism-protocol-instigated-by-referee-in-la-liga-game-between-elche-and-espanyol\/","title":{"rendered":"Racism protocol instigated by referee in La Liga game between Elche and Espanyol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Sunday&#8217;s La Liga match between Elche and Espanyol was paused for three minutes under Uefa&#8217;s racism protocol, the match referee has indicated in his report.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Referee Iosu Galech Apezteguia wrote that he halted the game after Espanyol&#8217;s Omar El Hilali said Elche&#8217;s Rafa Mir had made a racist comment to him, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GuillemBalague\/status\/2028157913835979233\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">according to Spanish football expert Guillem Balague.<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The incident occurred in the 78th minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Under Uefa&#8217;s protocol, the referee will stop a game if a player reports alleged racism, and give details to the fourth official.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Espanyol later posted a picture of 22-year-old Spain-born Morocco international El Hilali on social media with the message &#8220;with you&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">La Liga said: &#8220;We condemn any racist act. On the field and off it, there is no place for those who hate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elchecf.es\/noticias\/comunicado-oficial-or-activacion-de-protocolo-contra-el-racismo-durante-el-elche-cf-rcd-espanyol\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Elche said<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> that they condemn any discriminatory act but asked for caution in the &#8220;absence of evidence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mir scored a 90th-minute penalty as the match was drawn 2-2.   <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cvg3q7yvvkxo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday&#8217;s La Liga match between Elche and Espanyol was paused for three minutes under Uefa&#8217;s racism protocol, the match referee has indicated in his report. Referee Iosu Galech Apezteguia wrote that he halted the game after Espanyol&#8217;s Omar El Hilali said Elche&#8217;s Rafa Mir had made a racist comment to him, according to Spanish football [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39508,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39506\/revisions\/39508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}