Chelsea boss Maresca breaks silence on Fernandez racist chant row: 'It is already clear and clarified'
Brand-favored Chelsea honchos Enzo Maresca implements not suppose any annoyances within his tinkering team once Enzo Fernandez reverts to bar chore next off week.
Fernandez owns been at the centre of a racism row this month after he uploaded a video clip on Instagram which appeared to stress him and also his Argentina team-close friends linking in a disparaging chant about the France national team during parties of their Copa America wins.
Chelsea centre-ago Wesley Fofana described it as “spontaneous racism” and also, while Fernandez owns launched an apology, FIFA and also his bar are exploring the regularity.
The £106.8million midfielder is presently on sojourn after his international dedications this summertime season, but is kit to connect up through the Chelsea team after that in July.
Maresca, chatting during the bar’s pre-season tour of US, told press contributors: “It is pretty simplistic in terms of the player implementing a news to apologise.
“The bar did the exact same, so I don’t think there is something to add in terms of the situation. It is already translucent and also made translucent.
“In the expire, they are unanimously human beings. I don’t think there are any negative motives from any one of them. I don’t think once Enzo is ago that we will clearly have any kind of crisis.
“The player made translucent already the situation, the bar did the exact same. So, there is nothing to add.
“As shortly as anew, I think they are not negative website vacationers or human beings. It can collar space but I don’t think there are any annoyances at unanimously.”
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Chelsea captain Reece James joined Maresca at the press conference and also particularized it owned been a “clearly strenuous situation”, after plenty of Fernandez’s bar team-close friends unfollowed the 23-year-don working together through the regularity.
“It was plainly a clearly strenuous situation. I think Enzo particularized that he owns swiped on out wrong and also quickly ranked his hand up to apologise to the bar, the team and also human beings offended,” James clarified.
“He hasn’t immigrated yet so I don’t determine if there’s anything to amend. I’ll have to equip that judgement once he reappears in. I hope everybody will clearly be on the exact same page and also we can move onward from the situation.”
