Danny Makkelie whistles remainder of game halted | Football

sport">The group match in the Champions League was whistled on Tuesday evening by the Romanian Ovidiu Hategan. The footballers of the Turkish club walked off the field after fifteen minutes of play, because a racist remark was allegedly made towards one of their assistant coaches on the side. Basaksehir did not want to continue playing.

sport">The fourth official was attacked by Pierre Webo, the former soccer player from Cameroon who is now assistant coach at Basaksehir, and substitute Demba Ba. “Why do you say black boy?” Asked the Senegalese striker to the fourth man. It would be Sebastian Costantin who was also busy with his farewell match. The Romanian referee Hategan pulled a red card in the uproar that arose, presumably for Webo.

sport">The Basaksehir players did not take that and walked towards the dressing room after explaining to the footballers of Paris Saint-Germain what they believed had happened. PSG left the field out of solidarity. On Twitter, the Turkish club immediately posted the slogan ‘No To Racism’ that the European football federation UEFA has been using for years, followed by the hashtag #respect.

sport">Makkelie is assisted in Paris by Mario Diks. His other regular linesman Hessel Steegstra cannot come along, because unlike Makkelie and Diks, he cannot submit a recent negative corona test. That is why the Pole Marcin Boniek is the second assistant and Bartosz Frankowski is the fourth man. Marco Di Bello and Maurizio Mariani are VAR and AVAR.

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