{"id":23019,"date":"2026-02-18T20:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=23019"},"modified":"2026-02-18T20:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:17:15","slug":"champions-league-kick-it-out-chair-sanjay-bhandari-criticises-jose-mourinho-for-response-after-vinicius-junior-alleges-he-was-racially-abused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=23019","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: Kick It Out chair Sanjay Bhandari criticises Jose Mourinho for response after Vinicius Junior alleges he was racially abused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The chair of Kick It Out, Sanjay Bhandari, says the lack of support from Benfica and the response of their manager Jose Mourinho has &#8220;set the tone&#8221; in the racism row between the Portuguese club and Real Madrid, after Vinicius Junior alleged he had been racially abused by midfielder Gianluca Prestianni.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cx24vnm4dp5o\" class=\"ssrcss-jbu701-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Benfica claim &#8216;defamation campaign&#8217; against Prestianni<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/videos\/c62dzzp51zdo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chair of Kick It Out, Sanj&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}