Turkish based side, Galatasaray has accused the head coach of Fernanbache of being racist following him comments after the game between both side.
Jose Mourinho accused the Galatasaray bench of jumping around like a monkey during the game which was played on Monday, February 24, 2025. After the 0-0 draw, the Portuguese international criticised the Turkish referees stating that it would have been a ‘disaster’ to use an official from the country.
Prior to the match, it was confirmed that the derby would be officiated by Slovenian Slavko Vincic after both sides asked for a foreign referee to take charge.
What did Jose Mourinho say about Galatasaray?
“I have to thank the referee. After the big dive in the first minute and their bench jumping like monkeys on the top of the kid… with a Turkish referee you would have a yellow card after one minute and after five minutes I would have to change him. I went to the referee’s dressing room after the game, of course the fourth official was there, a Turkish referee. I told him ‘thank you for coming here, you come for a big match’ and I turned myself to the fourth official and I said ‘if you were a referee this match would be a disaster’.”
Galatasaray issued a statement on its official website after the game accusing Mourinho of being racist.
The statement read as follows,
“Since the commencement of his managerial duties in Turkey, Fenerbahce manager Jose Mourinho has persistently issued derogatory statements directed towards the Turkish people. Today, his discourse has escalated beyond merely immoral comments into unequivocally inhumane rhetoric. We hereby formally declare our intention to initiate criminal proceedings concerning the racist statements made by Jose Mourinho, and shall accordingly submit official complaints to Uefa and Fifa.”
Fernanbache thrown their support behind Mourinho by responding to also responded to Galatasaray.
The statement read thus,
“We deem it necessary to issue this statement concerning a matter that has dominated the agenda following the match between our Football Team and Galatasaray. A post-match remark made by our Coach, Jose Mourinho, has been deliberately taken entirely out of context and distorted in a misleading manner. As any reasonable person can clearly recognize, the expression used by Jose Mourinho was solely intended to describe the excessive reaction of the opposing team’s technical staff to the referee’s decisions during the match. These remarks cannot, under any circumstances, be associated with racism. Any attempt to portray this statement as a racist remark is completely malicious.”
The appropriate bodies are yet to respond to the incident involving Jose Mourinho and Galatasaray.
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