The Enzo Fernandez race storm at Chelsea exhibits little signal of going away any time quickly, with a dressing room cut up set to impression their preseason plans.
Fernandez was the topic of fast outrage after he posted a video of him and his Argentina teammates chanting an alleged racially offensive tune following their victory in Sunday’s Copa America remaining.
The vile chant contained derogatory lyrics about French gamers of African and Caribbean heritage and different transphobic phrases.
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The France Soccer Federation have confirmed that they are going to be submitting a authorized grievance, whereas Chelsea have mentioned Fernandez is the topic of an ‘inner disciplinary process’.
One other situation that the Stamford Bridge hierarchy face is a dressing room cut up that would derail their preseason plans.
Chelsea’s French defender Wesley Fofana was fast to sentence his membership teammate’s video, posting a clip of it with the caption: “Soccer in 2024: uninhibited racism,” earlier this week.
Fofana additionally unfollowed the 23-year-old on social media and is considered one of ten Chelsea gamers to both unfollow or snub the Argentinian on Instagram. Chelsea’s French contingent contains Fofana, plus Benoit Badiashile, Axel Disasi, Malo Gusto, Malang Sarr, Christopher Nkunku and Lesley Ugochukwu, with The Solar reporting that three of the squad’s different gamers are equally upset on the video.
The Chelsea squad are making ready to fly out to the USA on Monday to start their pre-season tour, with Fernandez as a consequence of hyperlink up with them midway by means of, following his Copa America exploits. However the report provides that these plans face ‘complete meltdown’, citing an insider who mentioned that Ferndnez’s apology isn’t sufficient to restore the injury he has brought on.
Chelsea are as a consequence of play Wrexham, Celtic, Membership America, Manchester Metropolis, Actual Madrid and Inter Milan throughout their tour of the USA, earlier than returning to the UK for his or her first match of the brand new Premier League marketing campaign in opposition to Manchester Metropolis.
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