{"id":476,"date":"2025-06-24T08:20:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T08:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/?p=476"},"modified":"2025-06-24T08:22:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T08:22:45","slug":"real-madrids-xabi-alonso-backs-rudiger-after-alleged-racist-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid&#8217;s Xabi Alonso backs Rudiger after alleged racist abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid head coach Xabi Alonso has voiced strong support for Antonio Rudiger following the defender&#8217;s claim of racist abuse at the end of their 3-1 Club World Cup win over Pachuca.<\/p>\n<p>Rudiger, who played the majority of the match with his team down to 10 men, reported the abuse after the final whistle. While it&#8217;s still unclear whether it came from a Pachuca player or the crowd, Alonso called the incident &#8220;unacceptable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe what he said,\u201d Alonso stated, confirming that FIFA&#8217;s anti-racism protocol had been activated. \u201cIf it happened, then measures should be taken. There is no tolerance for this in football.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"adzone-outstream\" class=\"advertising advertising--no-label js-adzone advertising--outstream advertising--called advertising--rendered advertising--empty-slot\" data-google-query-id=\"CNag8PnLiY4DFa9rpAQdBXYkEQ\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/6458\/africanews-new\/programs\/sport_3__container__\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdmntprnortheu.oaiusercontent.com\/files\/00000000-be10-61f4-b089-eec7388aaade\/raw?se=2025-06-24T09%3A11%3A47Z&amp;sp=r&amp;sv=2024-08-04&amp;sr=b&amp;scid=3663e45b-aeba-58e0-b8be-85a706444009&amp;skoid=b32d65cd-c8f1-46fb-90df-c208671889d4&amp;sktid=a48cca56-e6da-484e-a814-9c849652bcb3&amp;skt=2025-06-24T05%3A48%3A37Z&amp;ske=2025-06-25T05%3A48%3A37Z&amp;sks=b&amp;skv=2024-08-04&amp;sig=qCxetiXYMHsPzrrinnEScfzTbPoWbo4r6tqc6sk\/YAI%3D\" alt=\"Generated image\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The referee signaled the use of FIFA&#8217;s protocol during injury time, and the incident is now under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid head coach Xabi Alonso has voiced strong support for Antonio Rudiger following the defender&#8217;s claim of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}