Tottenham midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur has been charged by the Soccer Affiliation for utilizing a racial slur about team-mate Son Heung-min.

Showing on Uruguayan TV in June, Bentancur was requested by a presenter for a Tottenham shirt, earlier than replying: “Sonny’s? It could possibly be Sonny’s cousin too as all of them look the identical.”

Bentancur later apologised on Instagram and mentioned his feedback had been a “very dangerous joke”.

The FA mentioned the 27-year-old Uruguay worldwide had been “charged with an alleged breach of FA rule E3 for misconduct in relation to a media interview”.

“It is alleged that the Tottenham Hotspur midfielder acted in an improper method and/or used abusive and/or insulting phrases and/or introduced into disrepute,” mentioned an announcement from English soccer’s governing physique.

The FA mentioned this constituted an “aggravated breach… because it included a reference, whether or not specific or implied, to nationality and/or race and/or ethnic origin”.

When it comes to a size of ban, FA legal guidelines say, exterior “match-based sanctions of 6-12 video games will probably be really useful to regulatory commissions for nearly all acts of discrimination by particular person individuals”.

Bentancur has till Thursday, 19 September to answer the cost.