{"id":28182,"date":"2025-11-20T12:04:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=28182"},"modified":"2025-11-20T12:04:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:04:21","slug":"ex-spurs-star-taricco-banned-for-racist-gesture-in-s-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=28182","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Spurs star Taricco banned for racist gesture in S. Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Former Premier League defender Mauricio Taricco has been suspended for five games after making a racist gesture towards a referee in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old Argentine, now an assistant to manager Gus Poyet at South Korean champions Jeonbuk, was found by K League officials to have made a &#8220;slant-eye&#8221; gesture earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Taricco was sent off by referee Kim Woo-seong after the former Ipswich and Tottenham player argued that his team should have been awarded a penalty for handball.<\/p>\n<p>He then reportedly shouted the Spanish word for &#8220;racist&#8221; at the referee before putting his fingers to his eyes and pulling them back.<\/p>\n<p>The referee reported the gesture to the K League disciplinary committee, which ruled that Taricco&#8217;s &#8220;actions constituted racist behaviour&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(The committee) noted that such a gesture is widely recognised across cultures as derogatory towards people of a particular race and matches actions that have previously led to FIFA sanctions,&#8221; the K League said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The league said that Taricco had claimed &#8220;he was merely pointing to his eyes to question whether the referee had seen the handball foul&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The K League rejected Taricco&#8217;s argument and he was also fined 20 million won ($13,600).<\/p>\n<p>Jeonbuk were crowned this season&#8217;s first-division champions, becoming the first team to win the title 10 times.<\/p>\n<p>Former Chelsea and Tottenham midfielder Poyet took over as manager at the start of the year, bringing his long-time assistant Taricco with him.<\/p>\n<p>The pair previously worked together in England, Greece, Spain, China and France.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Premier League defender Mauricio Taricco has been suspended for five games after making a racist gesture towards a referee in South Korea. The 52-year-old Argentine, now an assistant to manager Gus Poyet at South Korean champions Jeonbuk, was found by K League officials to have made a &#8220;slant-eye&#8221; gesture earlier this month. Taricco was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}