{"id":293796,"date":"2025-12-01T22:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T22:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/293796\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T22:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T22:25:09","slug":"enzo-fernandez-video-fallout-brought-me-closer-to-chelsea-team-mates-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/293796\/","title":{"rendered":"Enzo Fernandez: Video fallout brought me closer to Chelsea team-mates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fernandez, who became Chelsea’s vice-captain that summer under manager Enzo Maresca, explained how he cut short his post-tournament holiday to apologise in person during their pre-season tour of the United States<\/a>, when he also released a written statement saying he was “truly sorry”. <\/p>\n

When asked if the episode strengthened his relationship with his team-mates, he replied: “Yes, absolutely.” He added: “It was a tough time, but my team-mates understood me.<\/p>\n

“It was a euphoric moment in which I didn’t want to hurt anyone. It was just a song that we sing in Argentina as part of ‘football folklore’, as we call it.<\/p>\n

“I tried to apologise to the squad to show my team-mates that I’m not the type to discriminate or judge others. They understood my message and that’s where it all ended.”<\/p>\n

The French Football Federation (FFF) filed a complaint to Fifa about the video, which it called “racist and discriminatory” as it targeted the ethnicity of their players. <\/p>\n

However, no punishment was issued<\/a> by the Premier League, Football Association or Uefa, as it fell under the jurisdiction of South American governing body Conmebol because it happened on international duty with Argentina.<\/p>\n

Kick It Out, the anti-discrimination group, raised its concerns with world governing body Fifa in January regarding the lack of action taken against Fernandez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fernandez, who became Chelsea’s vice-captain that summer under manager Enzo Maresca, explained how he cut short his post-tournament…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-293796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}