{"id":17926,"date":"2024-11-20T15:20:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T15:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=17926"},"modified":"2024-11-20T15:20:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T15:20:59","slug":"bentancur-son-the-rise-of-racism-against-south-east-asians-in-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=17926","title":{"rendered":"Bentancur, Son & the rise of racism against South East Asians in football"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“To be brutally honest, we run into these kind of things every week,” says London-based Premier League video content creator Kevin Yuan.<\/p>\n

It’s not only the high profile players facing racist abuse – fans have told BBC Sport about their experiences following football.<\/p>\n

Yuan was racially abused alongside a female colleague outside Wembley Stadium by Real Madrid supporters after the Champions League final in June.<\/p>\n

Yuan creates football content for the Chinese media market and was filming with celebrating Madrid fans who were – unknown to him – singing a racially offensive chant in Spanish about Chinese women, aimed at his colleague.<\/p>\n

“I asked one fan what did that chant mean? And he said, that’s it’s a Real Madrid chant, that we are champions,” he said.<\/p>\n

“The next day we were told by our friends in Spain that this was actually a very racist song. We found it incredibly offensive.”<\/p>\n

Yuan revealed he has faced similar incidents filming at English clubs.<\/p>\n

“It feels like part of our jobs [to take the abuse],” he said. “We film at different stadiums before and after the game and it seems to happen literally every week. <\/p>\n

“I don’t know if it is because of the way I look or speak.<\/p>\n

“I am in a chat group with Chinese supporters of Manchester United and we have a saying that you will be extremely lucky to avoid a racist incident at least once during a season.<\/p>\n

“It happens no matter which team you support. I came to the UK in 2008 and have been going to games since then – but I feel like a foreigner, like I don’t fit in. I would hope people can understand how unsettling it is and put themselves in my shoes.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: <\/em> www.bbc.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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