Ezequiel Lavezzi is facing backlash after a photo released by Hebei China Fortune showed him pulling a slant-eye pose in an apparent attempt to imitate a Chinese person.<\/p>\n
The Argentine striker will have some explaining to do after he is seen smiling and making the offensive facial expression while posing a commercial photo shoot for his club.<\/p>\n
The controversial image was immediately highlighted on the internet, with some Chinese fans demanding the former Paris Saint-Germain star to leave the country.<\/p>\n
“China made Lavezzi the highest paid footballer in the world. In return, he happily mocked and denigrated the Chinese people. What a decent man!” wrote one angry comment on social media.<\/p>\n
It is unclear who should take the responsible for the controversial image as neither Lavezzi or Hebei Fortune’s management has given any clarification so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ezequiel Lavezzi is facing backlash after a photo released by Hebei China Fortune showed him pulling a slant-eye pose in an apparent attempt to imitate a Chinese person. The Argentine striker will have some explaining to do after he is seen smiling and making the offensive facial expression while posing a commercial photo shoot for his club. The controversial image was immediately highlighted on the internet, with some Chinese fans demanding the former Paris Saint-Germain star to leave the country. “China made Lavezzi the highest paid footballer in the world. In return, he happily mocked and denigrated the Chinese people. What a decent man!” wrote one angry comment on social … Continue reading “Ezequiel Lavezzi facing racism backlash after posting controversial photo”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":3505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,30],"tags":[154,83,385,213],"class_list":["post-3504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-east-asia","tag-china","tag-chinese-super-league","tag-ezequiel-lavezzi","tag-hebei-china-fortune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}