{"id":76140,"date":"2013-08-19T07:25:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T04:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=76140"},"modified":"2014-01-08T14:03:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T12:03:18","slug":"uefa-punishes-polands-legia-for-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/08\/19\/uefa-punishes-polands-legia-for-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"UEFA punishes Poland\u2019s Legia for racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76141\" alt=\"uefa\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/uefa.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/uefa.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/uefa-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>LAUSANNE: According to Star, Polish top-flight club Legia Warsaw were on Wednesday ordered by UEFA to shut a stand used by its die-hard fans after racist chanting by supporters at a Champions League match.<\/p>\n<p>UEFA said that Legia would have to bar fans from the north stand of the Stadion Wojska Polskiego during their Champions League play-off on Aug 27, when they face Romania\u2019s Steaua Bucharest.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, UEFA slapped a fine of 30,000 euros (RM130,100) on the club.<\/p>\n<p>Nicknamed the \u201cZyleta\u201c, a play on the word \u201crazor\u201c, the north stand is home to the most passionate and, frequently, controversial fans of the club in the Polish capital.<\/p>\n<p>The regularly have fallen foul of both Polish and European football authorities, as well the club itself.<\/p>\n<p>The racist incidents in question occurred during Legia\u2019s Champions League second qualifying round victory over Welsh club The New Saints on July 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAUSANNE: According to Star, Polish top-flight club Legia Warsaw were on Wednesday ordered by UEFA to shut a stand used by its die-hard fans after racist chanting by supporters at a Champions League match. UEFA said that Legia would have to bar fans from the north stand of the Stadion Wojska Polskiego during their Champions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":76141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[628],"tags":[9247,9246,50,5126],"class_list":["post-76140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poland-eu-members-european-countries-english","tag-champions-league-match","tag-legia","tag-poland","tag-uefa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}