{"id":15791,"date":"2019-11-25T15:38:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T14:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=15791"},"modified":"2019-11-25T15:38:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T14:38:59","slug":"zidane-urges-fans-not-to-boo-bale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/zidane-urges-fans-not-to-boo-bale\/","title":{"rendered":"Zidane Urges Fans Not To Boo Bale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane has asked for fans to stop booing Gareth Bale.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There was a mixed reaction from fans when he was brought on as a substitute in their 3-1 win over Real Sociedad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is too much noise with Bale. He wants to be with us and do it well,&#8221; said Zidane.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope this doesn&#8217;t carry on for the rest of the season. We want the fans to be with us from the beginning to the end, but we cannot control that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;I have not spoken to him, I have only congratulated him. I can&#8217;t tell you if it&#8217;s unfair or not. Everyone can say what they want.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This backlash comes from a flag Bale held up after a match he played for his country, Wales.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.4089523.1574261499!\/image\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/box_620_330\/image.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for bale flag&quot;\" width=\"620\" height=\"330\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The flag that caused controversy.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Despite the initial jeering, he was applauded after playing a part in the third goal which was scored by Modric.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is integrated into the group and wants to play, just like everyone else,&#8221; said Zidane.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The public has the right to do what they want, but I ask that they applaud everyone. I&#8217;m happy with the game and the victory and Bale came into the game well.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane has asked for fans to stop booing Gareth Bale. There was a mixed reaction from fans when he was brought on as a substitute in their 3-1 win over Real Sociedad. &#8220;There is too much noise with Bale. He wants to be with us and do it well,&#8221; said Zidane&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":15792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1771,275,71,1772,316],"class_list":["post-15791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worldwide-news","tag-bale","tag-football","tag-news","tag-real-madrid","tag-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15793,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15791\/revisions\/15793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}