{"id":5147,"date":"2023-10-27T12:39:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T09:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/5147\/onana-defends-garnacho-amid-fa\/"},"modified":"2023-10-27T12:39:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T09:39:07","slug":"onana-defends-garnacho-amid-fa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=5147","title":{"rendered":"Onana defends Garnacho amid FA probe over social media post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Onana defends Garnacho amid FA probe over social media post\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Rob Dawson, correspondent<span class=\"timestamp \">October 26, 2023, 9:04 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Andre Onana has defended his Manchester United teammate Alejandro Garnacho after the English FA launched an investigation into a social media post made by the Argentine showing two gorillas above a photo of the Cameroon goalkeeper.<\/p>\n<p>Garnacho posted the message on X, formerly Twitter, after <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/onana\/\"   title=\"Onana\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Onana<\/a> saved a penalty in stoppage time to give United a 1-0 win over FC Copenhagen in the Champions League on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>It was removed shortly after, once the 19-year-old was informed by the club of possible racial overtones.<\/p>\n<p>The FA is investigating the incident and has asked Garnacho for his observations.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Alejandro Garnacho has made 11 appearances for Manchester United so far this season. <cite>Matthieu Ashton \u2013 AMA\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>On Thursday, Onana defended Garnacho in her own social media post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople can\u2019t choose what I should be offended by,\u201d Onana wrote on Instagram.  &#8220;I know exactly what [Garnacho] meant: power and strength.  This matter should not go any further.  \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Garnacho could face a suspension if he is charged by the FA for breaching its rules.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Manchester City midfielder Bernardo Silva was banned for one match and fined \u00a350,000 by the FA after comparing teammate Benjamin Mendy to a black cartoon character, despite a commission acknowledging that he didn&#8217;t mean it to be racist.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, United striker Edinson Cavani was suspended for three matches and fined \u00a3100,000 for a social media post containing a Spanish term that could have been interpreted as racist in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Onana defends Garnacho amid FA probe over social media post\u060c Rob Dawson, correspondentOctober 26, 2023, 9:04 p.m. Andre Onana has defended his Manchester United teammate Alejandro Garnacho after the English FA launched an investigation into a social media post made by the Argentine showing two gorillas above a photo of the Cameroon goalkeeper. Garnacho posted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[765,3818,2216,35,646,2531,2215],"class_list":["post-5147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-defends","tag-garnacho","tag-media","tag-onana","tag-post","tag-probe","tag-social"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5149,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5147\/revisions\/5149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}