Wolves will submit an official criticism to UEFA after South Korea striker Hee Chan Hwang mentioned he was racially abused throughout Monday’s pleasant with Italian aspect Como.
The incident occurred halfway via the second half of the sport staged at Wolves’ pre-season coaching base in Marbella with team-mate Daniel Podence sent-off within the ensuing melee.
Head coach Gary O’Neil spoke to Hwang and supplied him the prospect to have the sport deserted however the participant opted to hold on.
O’Neil advised the membership’s official web site: “Channy heard a racist comment which is basically disappointing. I spoke to Channy about it, checked whether or not he needed to take the crew off or come off himself, however he was eager the crew carried on and bought the work they wanted. It’s actually disappointing that it occurred, that now we have to speak about it and that it impacted the sport – not superb and issues like that shouldn’t be round.
“He’s actually dissatisfied, in fact, and understandably. I’m happy with the truth that he needed to hold on and put his crew first in a tough second for him. He knew it was a pre-season journey and he needed the lads to work and get their minutes, though he’d suffered one thing massively offensive. Channy shall be OK, he’ll get our full assist and we’ll choose him up within the morning and ensure he’s OK.
Gary O’Neil addresses the incident that overshadowed our first pre-season coaching recreation.
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“It’s a collectively group. In fact, there’s methods to deal with that and we don’t need to go away ourselves quick on the pitch, but it surely’s a collectively group. We’ve labored actually exhausting this week, had a very good week, had some nice moments within the recreation, but it surely’s an unlucky incident now we have to take care of and have to debate when, ideally, we’d be speaking in regards to the recreation. In fact, when an incident like that occurs in a recreation, it’s the very first thing we talk about.”
Wolves gained the sport 1-0 over the Serie A brand new-boys, full-back Matt Doherty scoring the one aim shortly after the hour mark, heading dwelling Rayat Ait-Nouri’s free-kick.
