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Son Heung-min has said that Rodrigo Bentancur “almost cried” when he apologised for his comments about the Tottenham Hotspur captain.
Bentancur, 27, said South Korean international Son and his cousins “all look the same” on the television programme Por la Camiseta, which is broadcast in his native Uruguay.
Bentancur apologised to Son, 32, on social media and called it “a joke in bad taste.” Tottenham later released a statement saying that Son wanted to “draw a line under the incident.”
Earlier this month Bentancur was charged by the Football Association (FA) for…