{"id":1206,"date":"2014-01-31T03:55:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T03:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2014-01-31T03:55:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T03:55:21","slug":"players-refuse-to-play-over-unpaid-wages-as-opponents-pass-ball-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/players-refuse-to-play-over-unpaid-wages-as-opponents-pass-ball-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Players Refuse To Play Over Unpaid Wages As Opponents Pass Ball Around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p itemprop=\"description\">Racing Santander players refused to play over unpaid wages and forced their Copa del Rey quarter-final against Real Sociedad to be abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>They would not challenge for the ball after their home quarter-final second leg kicked off.<\/p>\n<p>Sociedad won the first leg 3-1, with the winners set to face Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>Racing players released a joint statement on Monday announcing they would boycott the tie unless president Angel Lavin and his board stepped down.<\/p>\n<p>The home side turned up and completed their warm-up but, after Sociedad kicked off, the Racing players stood arm in arm around the centre circle, with substitutes and coaching staff lining up in solidarity on the touchline.<\/p>\n<p>Sociedad passed the ball between themselves in their own half for two minutes before kicking it out for a throw-in, at which point the referee signalled that the match was suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Racing players say they have not been paid for several months.<\/p>\n<p>bbc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racing Santander players refused to play over unpaid wages and forced their Copa del Rey quarter-final against Real Sociedad to be abandoned. They would not challenge for the ball after their home quarter-final second leg kicked off. Sociedad won the first leg 3-1, with the winners set to face Barcelona. Racing players released a joint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,81],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}