{"id":43911,"date":"2024-07-26T21:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T21:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/racist-video-i-dont-condone-such-behaviour-mikel-obi-hits-chelsea-midfielder\/"},"modified":"2024-07-26T21:00:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T21:00:28","slug":"racist-video-i-dont-condone-such-behaviour-mikel-obi-hits-chelsea-midfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/racist-video-i-dont-condone-such-behaviour-mikel-obi-hits-chelsea-midfielder\/","title":{"rendered":"Racist video: I don\u2019t condone such behaviour \u2013 Mikel Obi hits Chelsea midfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Super Eagles and Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel has hit out at Enzo Fernandez for singing racist chants with his Argentina teammates.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez was widely criticised after videos of him and his Argentina teammates could be seen singing a derogatory song about French players with African heritage.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened after Argentina\u2019s 2024 Copa America win over Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on his podcast, Mikel said he doesn\u2019t condone such behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole thing, it is very sensitive, and it always is when something like this happens. Everybody has their opinion when it comes to these issues. One thing I will say about it is that I don\u2019t condone such acts as a person or a player,\u201d Mikel Obi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes the adrenaline just takes over everything else. You\u2019ve won the Copa America back-to-back, which is f***g amazing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut then still, I don\u2019t condone that [type of behaviour]. When you are winning is actually when you need to be responsible. You need to be more humble and know that everything you do is being picked up. I don\u2019t think it was worth it. It just spoils the whole celebration and everything they have achieved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cI don\u2019t think it was only him singing, everybody was. It was wrong, and it\u2019s not his place to say these kind of things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Racist video: I don\u2019t condone such behaviour \u2013 Mikel Obi hits Chelsea midfielder<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Super Eagles and Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel has hit out at Enzo Fernandez for singing racist chants with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[606,2091,15,160],"tags":[714,8,16307,609,20107,705,802,233,2095,180,794,21203,201,22162],"class_list":["post-43911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-mikel-obi","category-news","category-sport","tag-video","tag-akwa-ibom","tag-behaviour","tag-chelsea","tag-condone","tag-dont","tag-hits","tag-midfielder","tag-mikel","tag-news","tag-obi","tag-racist","tag-sport","tag-such"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}