The 27-year-old midfielder was charged with an "aggravated breach" of FA rules in September for offensive comments made during a television interview broadcast in Uruguay in June, when he said that his club-mate Son and his South Korea teammates "all look the same".
In the interview Bentancur was asked to provide a Tottenham shirt belonging to Son, to which he replied: "Sonny's or a cousin of Sonny's? They all look the same, more or less."
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