{"id":315249,"date":"2017-04-30T20:53:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T20:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=315249"},"modified":"2017-04-30T20:53:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T20:53:50","slug":"sulley-muntari-yellow-carded-after-reporting-racial-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=315249","title":{"rendered":"Sulley Muntari yellow carded after reporting ‘racial abuse’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pescara’s Sulley Muntari walked off the pitch in protest when a referee booked him after he claimed he was being racially abused during a league match.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old former Ghana midfielder asked Daniele Minelli to stop Sunday’s Serie A game at Cagliari.<\/p>\n

But he was instead booked for dissent in the 89th minute, prompting the former Portsmouth and Sunderland player to leave the pitch in protest.<\/p>\n

He angrily confronted Cagliari fans, shouting: “This is my colour.”<\/p>\n

Pescara boss Zdenek Zeman, whose side lost 1-0, said: “He asked the referee to intervene, but he [said he had] neither heard nor seen anything.<\/p>\n

“Muntari was right, but he shouldn’t have left the pitch. It’s not up to us to dole out justice. We can talk a lot about it but then it must be left with the powers that be.<\/p>\n

“Today this has happened when Muntari has already played in Italy for many years. We hope that mentalities will change.”<\/p>\n

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Sulley Muntari speaks to the referee during Pescara’s defeat at Cagliari<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Muntari was at AC Milan when then team-mate Kevin-Prince Boateng walked off the pitch because of racist chanting during a friendly with lower-league side Pro Patria in January 2013.<\/p>\n

It prompted a wave of support on social media. Fifa, football’s world governing body, applauded Boateng’s principles, but said it did not condone his decision to walk off.<\/p>\n

Pescara are bottom of Serie A and have been relegated to Italy’s second tier.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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