{"id":8598,"date":"2026-02-26T15:45:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/real-madrid-condemn-fan-for-alleged-nazi-salute\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T15:45:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:15:04","slug":"real-madrid-condemn-fan-for-alleged-nazi-salute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/real-madrid-condemn-fan-for-alleged-nazi-salute\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid condemn fan for alleged Nazi salute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByLorraine McKennaBBC Sport Journalist<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published16 minutes ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Real Madrid have launched an investigation after a supporter allegedly performed a Nazi salute before the club&#x27;s Champions League win against Benfica on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Prior to the kick-off at the Bernabeu, a fan appeared to make the fascist gesture as the television cameras panned around the 83,000-seater stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The fan was identified by security staff moments later and ejected from the ground.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/live\/cq5747devq8t\">Real beat Portuguese side Benfica 2-1<\/a> in the second leg of their knockout round play-off tie to progress 3-1 on aggregate to the last 16 of the Champions League. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Spanish club said they have asked its disciplinary committee &quot;to initiate an immediate expulsion procedure&quot; for the fan.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Real Madrid condemns this type of gesture and expression that incites violence and hatred in sports and society,&quot; it added.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/articles\/cewzn4leyx1o\">\n<p>Real Madrid win &#x27;for everyone who stands against racism&#x27;<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published9 hours ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/videos\/cewznk72ndgo\">\n<p>&#x27;He was always going to score&#x27; &#8211; Real beat Benfica to reach last 16<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published11 hours ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The incident comes after Real Madrid forward Vinicius Jr alleged he was racially abused by Benfica&#x27;s Gianluca Prestianni during the first leg in Lisbon. <\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Brazilian, who scored the only goal of the game, informed the referee he had been racially abused by Prestianni and the game was <a href=\"\/sport\/football\/articles\/cpv843x1zgzo\">halted for 10 minutes <\/a>after he and his Madrid team-mates left the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Argentine winger Prestianni was subsequently handed a provisional one-match ban and missed the second leg after <a href=\"\/sport\/football\/articles\/clygxwzvy1eo\">Uefa rejected Benfica&#x27;s appeal against his suspension<\/a>. He could still face further punishment, pending the result of a full Uefa investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Vinicius, who scored Madrid&#x27;s winner on 80 minutes, received support by the home fans as a banner with the words &quot;no to racism&quot; in Spanish was displayed in the stands before kick-off.<\/p>\n<p>His team-mate Aurelien Tchouameni also said the win was &quot;for everyone who stands against racism&quot;. <\/p>\n<h2>Related topics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/european\">European Football<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/teams\/real-madrid\">Real Madrid<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\/champions-league\">UEFA Champions League<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/football\">Football<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>More on this story<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sounds\/series\/p02nrsln\">\n<p>Listen to the latest Football Daily podcast<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid condemn fan for alleged Nazi salute Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, The &#x27;no to racism&#x27; banner was shown before Real Madrid&#x27;s Champions League tie with BenficaByLorr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}