the match against Manchester City<\/a>, after boos and whistles rang out when play was briefly paused to allow Muslim players to break their fast during the holy month of Ramadan.<\/p>\nAdvertisement<\/p>\n
The match was temporarily stopped at Elland Road at sunset so Manchester City’s Muslim players could break their fast, in accordance with the Premier League protocol established in 2021.<\/p>\n
Guardiola calls for respect and tolerance<\/p>\n
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola responded to the incident by calling for respect for religious diversity and greater tolerance.<\/p>\n
“Stopping play to allow Muslim players to break their fast during Ramadan is a protocol that has been in place for several years. It’s an important gesture that helps make football more inclusive for Muslim players and communities,” he said after the match.<\/p>\n
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The Spanish coach nevertheless regretted the reaction from part of the crowd: “But as tonight showed, football still has a long way to go in terms of education and acceptance.”<\/p>\n
Guardiola also stressed the importance of respecting beliefs: “This is the modern world, isn’t it? Look at what’s still happening around the world right now! Respecting religions, respecting diversity, that’s what really matters! That’s how it is, unfortunately.”<\/p>\n
He concluded with a rhetorical question: “Can they take a break, yes or no? Can they do it? Take a one-minute pause for this? What’s the problem? Is there a problem?! Obviously not.”<\/p>\n
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Sent off during the game, Leeds United manager Daniel Farke was unable to address the media. Instead, his assistant Edmund Riemer spoke up about the incident.<\/p>\n
“I might be the person who hears this kind of thing the least, because I’m very focused on the match. But I heard what happened. Clearly, some supporters acted this way, and we have to learn from it. It’s disappointing, and we have to do better in the future,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guardiola slams boos against Muslim players’ iftar Guardiola \/ @x.com\/FabrizioRomano The reaction of some Leeds United supporters has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[157880,157881,85,46,41272,20906,29786,105],"class_list":["post-316228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-guardiola","tag-holy-month-of-ramadan","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-leeds","tag-leeds-united","tag-man-city","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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