{"id":164072,"date":"2024-03-21T13:13:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T13:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/03\/21\/rfef-hit-back-at-real-madrids-complaint-over-vinicius-junior-abuse\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T13:13:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T13:13:39","slug":"rfef-hit-back-at-real-madrids-complaint-over-vinicius-junior-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/03\/21\/rfef-hit-back-at-real-madrids-complaint-over-vinicius-junior-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"RFEF hit back at Real Madrid\u2019s complaint over Vinicius Junior abuse \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>The Spanish football federation (RFEF) has put \u201ctotal and unconditional support\u201d behind La Liga referee Juan Martinez Munuera following a complaint from Real Madrid regarding the omission of alleged racist abuse towards Vinicius Junior from his match report over the weekend.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Madrid beat Osasuna, but attention afterwards was\u00a0focused on the abuse aimed at Vinicius\u00a0and the club claimed that Munuera \u201cvoluntarily and deliberately omitted the insults and humiliating shouts\u2026 despite being warned insistently by our players at the same time they were occurring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Osasuna denied that any chanting aimed at Madrid players were of a racist nature. Munuera\u2019s post-match report noted one instance of death threats being aimed at Vinicius from a section of Osasuna fans and another of heckling the player after being yellow carded.<\/p>\n<p>RFEF\u2019s Technical Competition Committee, to whom the complaints was submitted, described the accusations levelled at Munuera as \u201cunfair\u201d.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/01hsewyr1c1y1tw6dg6z.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Vinicius made the referee aware of abuse aimed at him\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Vinicius made the referee aware of abuse aimed at him \/ Juan Manuel Serrano Arce\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>Their\u00a0statement\u00a0read: \u201cWe must clarify that, once the audios of the match were reviewed, no indication was heard from any Real Madrid CF player regarding this issue nor, after the match, did the club delegate inform the referee of any incident related to these shouts or chants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReal Madrid CF is unaware that the Reporting Official of the match, who belongs to the Technical Committee of Referees, did reflect in his report those public incidents that he considered significant, fulfilling his duties as a Specialised Official in the fight against violence, racism and xenophobia granted by the General Regulations of the RFEF.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RFEF went on to stress their commitment to the \u201cfight against all types of violence, racism, xenophobia and intolerance\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Vinicius has been targeted by racist chanting on several occasions in recent seasons.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish football federation (RFEF) has put \u201ctotal and unconditional support\u201d behind La Liga referee Juan Martinez Munuera following a complaint from Real Madrid regarding the omission of alleged racist abuse towards Vinicius Junior from his match report over the weekend. 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