UEFA bans Azeri club official over hate post targeting Armenians

An official at Azeri club Qarabag has been provisionally banned by UEFA while he is investigated for potentially “violating basic rules of decent conduct” in comments he made on social media, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing the European soccer body.

UEFA said that Nurlan Ibrahimov had also been charged with racist and discriminatory conduct over the comments. It did not give further details and Ibrahimov did not immediately comment.

On Saturday, the Football Federation of Armenia had called for Qarabag to be expelled from European football for a post on social media by "Nurlan Ibrahimov, a PR and media manager of Qarabag FK...calling to kill all the Armenians, old and young, without distinction."

The FFA added that he also justified the fact of Armenian Genocide committed by Turkey. Ibrahimov subsequently deleted his post, but hundreds of users managed to see and save it.