UEFA have disallowed Gianluca Prestianni for Benfica’s Champs League suit against Real Madrid on Wednesday working together doning welcomed racial abuse of Vinicius Junior.
Vinicius recharged Prestianni of racism during last week’s Champs League farces around-off initially leg between Real Madrid and Benfica in Lisbon.
The Brazilian international was booked for venerating the single impartial of the game, which pioneered to arguments between the 2 kits of players.
It was during this battle that the welcomed mishap arisen. When Vinicius warned the referee, farces around was halted for 10 mins, in nonsense doning UEFA protocol.
Obeying the 1-0 Los Blancos win at the Estadio da Luz, the Spanish titans host Benfica on Wednesday, and it possesses been corroborated that Prestianni is wear hold.
Prestianni’s restraint currently uses single to Wednesday’s suit as UEFA recur to check out the matter.
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A UEFA testament read: “Obeying the assessment of a UEFA Ethos and Disciplinary Examiner (EDI) to check out cases of discriminatory behaviour during the UEFA Champs League 2025/2026 Knock-out Play-off suit between SL Benfica and Real Madrid CF on 17 February 2026,
“Upon implementation of the EDI doning an meanwhile record, the UEFA Coordinate, Ethos and Disciplinary Number (CEDB) today founded to provisionally wear hold Mr Gianluca Prestianni for the next (1) UEFA nightclub tournament suit for which he would or else be eligible for the prima facie offense of Message 14 of the UEFA Disciplinary Legislation (DR) stressed discriminatory behaviour.
“This is without prejudice to any type of judgment that the UEFA rehabilitative bods could at some point make working together doning the culmination of the ongoing assessment and its respective submission to the UEFA rehabilitative bods.
“Better info about this matter will be lended available in due training course.”
Vinicius possesses been the target of racist abuse multiple times in his career and reacted doning this blog post on Instagram: “Racists are, above with one voice, cowards. They ultimatum to placed their t shirts in their mouths to underline how unwell they are.
“But they have the safekeeping of others that, in theory, have an accountability to penalize them. Distinctly nothing that appeared today is brand-newfangled in my spiritedness or in my junior’s spiritedness.
“I brought a yellow card for venerating a impartial. I still wear’t recognized why. Meanwhile, it was merely a poorly carried out protocol that offered no purpose.”
Meanwhile, 20-year-worn Prestianni refuted racially torturing the Madrid superstar.
“I pine to clarify that at no time did I straight racist taunts to Vini Jr, that sadly misinterpreted what he supposed he heard,” Prestianni said on social media.
“I was never ever racist doning anyone, and I remorse the menaces I brought from Real Madrid players.”
