{"id":438180,"date":"2023-06-20T07:41:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T11:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438180"},"modified":"2023-06-20T07:41:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T11:41:53","slug":"new-zealand-abandons-game-vs-qatar-over-racism","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/new-zealand-abandons-game-vs-qatar-over-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand abandons game vs. Qatar over racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand didn&#8217;t go to the pitch for the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half of their friendly versus Qatar in Austria after defender Michael Boxall suffered racial abuse by the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>However, that wasn&#8217;t the only match abandoned in Austria that day amid racism claims. Ireland&#8217;s U21 national team also didn&#8217;t finish their match versus the Kuwait Olympic team after a footballer from Kuwait had racially abused unused Irish player on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A Qatari footballer used a racial language towards All Whites defender Boxall after a dispute between them,&#8221; New Zealand Football shared with the media. &#8220;A few of our footballers heard the racial abuse, including Michael.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">New Zealand\u2019s football team abandons Qatar friendly at half-time over alleged racist comment <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gcWgSwVxmL\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/gcWgSwVxmL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mUNlKfVyON\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/mUNlKfVyON<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AJE Sport (@AJE_Sport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJE_Sport\/status\/1671070300434210816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand didn&#8217;t go to the pitch for the 2nd half of their friendly versus Qatar in Austria after defender Michael Boxall suffered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":438181,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19975,16725],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[19976,19977],"acf":{"announce":"The national team left amid racism claims.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438180"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438180"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}