Enzo Fernandez apologises to his membership team-mates and pledges charity donation after becoming a member of up with squad in US in bid to place an finish to Chelsea civil conflict after being on the centre of racism row

Enzo Fernandez is now again with the Chelsea squad in america, two weeks after the £106.8million midfielder sparked a racism storm with the video uploaded to his Instagram throughout Argentina’s Copa America celebrations.

Fernandez arrived in Atlanta on Monday and instantly apologised to his team-mates in individual. 

He had been in fixed contact with gamers since publicly and privately saying sorry for filming himself and fellow members of the Argentinian nationwide staff singing an offensive track about their French counterparts.

Fernandez voluntarily supplied to make a contribution to an anti-discrimination charity in recognition of his misjudgement, which galvanized his Blues bosses. 

The membership have additionally privately pledged to match that donation through their charitable arm, the Chelsea Basis.

This represented an early problem for brand new head coach Enzo Maresca, whereas captain Reece James and defender Axel Disasi have been two of the lead figures within the session course of with Chelsea’s gamers. 

Disasi is certainly one of six Frenchmen on the membership’s tour that additionally consists of Wesley Fofana, Benoit Badiashile, Malo Gusto, Lesley Ugochukwu and Christopher Nkunku. Fernandez has now educated with the squad and had lunch along with his team-mates.

Mail Sport broke two weeks in the past how Chelsea have been internally investigating the incident, with Fernandez dealing with a extremely awkward return when coming face-to-face along with his team-mates. 

Fofana was a type of who used social media to disclose his disgust on the Argentinian chants, which he referred to as ‘uninhibited racism’. 

The track dates again to the 2022 World Cup closing by which Argentina beat France, with lyrics describing how French gamers are ‘from Angola’ or have a ‘Nigerian’ mom and a ‘Cameroonian’ father.

It sparked outrage, not solely from Fernandez’s fellow gamers however the French Soccer Federation, who mentioned: ‘Confronted with the seriousness of those surprising remarks, opposite to the values of sport and human rights, the president of the FFF determined to straight problem his Argentine counterpart and FIFA and to file a authorized criticism for insulting remarks of a racial and discriminatory nature.’