{"id":901,"date":"2012-07-30T16:38:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T16:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=901"},"modified":"2012-07-30T16:40:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T16:40:24","slug":"swiss-soccer-player-investigated-for-twitter-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=901","title":{"rendered":"Swiss soccer player investigated for Twitter &#8216;racism&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_902\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-902\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/morganella_michel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-902 \" title=\"morganella_michel\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/morganella_michel-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/morganella_michel-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/morganella_michel.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-902\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michel Morganella<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Switzerland&#8217;s Michel Morganella is being investigated for sending an allegedly racist message on Twitter after their defeat in the men&#8217;s Olympic football by South Korea, a Swiss team official said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are investigating this case and we will hold a news conference at 5pm today,&#8221; said Christof Kaufmann.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged tweet has since been deleted from the player&#8217;s account but pictures of it appeared in the Swiss media. The 23-year-old Swiss international, who plays for Palermo, could face expulsion from the Games. He has played the full 90 minutes in both of Switzerland&#8217;s matches and was booked against South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Last week the Greek triple jumper Paraskevi Papachristou was thrown off the Olympic team following a racist comment on her account regarding Africans living in Greece. &#8211; Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Switzerland&#8217;s Michel Morganella is being investigated for sending an allegedly racist message on Twitter after their defeat in the men&#8217;s Olympic football by South Korea, a Swiss team official said on Monday. &#8220;We are investigating this case and we will hold a news conference at 5pm today,&#8221; said Christof Kaufmann. The alleged tweet has since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=901\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Swiss soccer player investigated for Twitter &#8216;racism&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[654,652,65,157,476,653],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-football","tag-michel-morganella","tag-race","tag-racism","tag-soccer","tag-switzerland"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/morganella_michel.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":904,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}