{"id":9023,"date":"2025-01-06T02:05:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T02:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/vinicius-jr-carlo-ancelotti-defends-real-madrid-winger-after-sending-off-against-valencia\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T02:05:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T02:05:37","slug":"vinicius-jr-carlo-ancelotti-defends-real-madrid-winger-after-sending-off-against-valencia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/vinicius-jr-carlo-ancelotti-defends-real-madrid-winger-after-sending-off-against-valencia\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinicius Jr: Carlo Ancelotti defends Real Madrid winger after sending off against Valencia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vinicius Jr has faced racist abuse during his time in Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three Valencia fans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c977plv56d9o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">were sent to prison earlier this year<\/a> for racially abusing the 24-year-old during a La Liga match at the Mestalla Stadium in May 2023. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s difficult being in his shoes,&#8221; added boss Ancelotti.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not easy to endure everything he goes through, including the insults. It&#8217;s not simple, but he&#8217;s trying to improve. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s upset about it and has apologised [to his team-mates].<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We need to look ahead. We hope he won&#8217;t face a suspension.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Madrid face Deportiva Minera in the last 32 of the Copa del Rey on Monday. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c2kxepg3jvwo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vinicius Jr has faced racist abuse during his time in Spain. Three Valencia fans were sent to prison earlier this year for racially abusing the 24-year-old during a La Liga match at the Mestalla Stadium in May 2023. &#8220;It&#8217;s difficult being in his shoes,&#8221; added boss Ancelotti. &#8220;It&#8217;s not easy to endure everything he goes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-football","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9025,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9023\/revisions\/9025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}