Tottenham star, Rodrigo Bentancur set to be hit with huge ban for ‘racial slur’ against his team-mate Son Heung-min

The Football Association is set to hit Tottenham midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur with a lengthy ban for making an alleged racist remark about South Koreans while on Uruguayan TV. 

According to Mail Sport, the midfielder is likely to receive a seven-match ban but that figure is unconfirmed. 

Appearing on the show in his homeland in June, Interviewer asked Bentancur for Son Heung-min’s kit, Bentancur replies “maybe from his cousin” as “they all look the same”

The FA confirmed earlier this year that they charged the South American for an ‘aggravated breach’ of their rules. 

And the FA are now close to confirming Bentancur’s punishment. 

Breaking his silence on the incident earlier this summer, the former Juventus star took to social media to deliver a grovelling apology to Son, insisting to the Spurs captain it was a ‘very bad joke’.

He said: ‘Sonny brother! I apologise to you for what happened, it was just a very bad joke!

‘You know that I love you and I would never disrespect you or hurt you or anyone else! I love you brother!’

The South Korean revealed that team-mate Bentancur was close to tears when he apologised over the alleged racial slur.

‘At the moment because of the FA process I can’t say much about it,’ said Son in September. ‘But I love Rodrigo, I love him. We’ve a lot of good memories since we started playing together when he joined. 

‘He knew and he apologised straight afterwards. We were on holiday. I was at home. I didn’t even realise what was going on when he sent me a long message and you could feel it was coming from his heart.

‘When we came back for pre-season he felt really sorry, and almost cried when he apologised publicly and personally as well. He felt like he was really sorry. We are all human and all make mistakes and we learn from it.’