Players for England’s Leicester City soccer club, on a promotional visit to Thailand, reportedly hired local hookers for a racist orgy — which was caught on tape and published on Sunday.
The Daily Mirror posted troubling footage of players James Pearson, Tom Hopper and Adam Smith, who were in Thailand to support the club’s corporate sponsor “Amazing Thailand,” that nation’s tourism board.
Pearson is the son of team manager Nigel Pearson.
One of the men, off camera, can be heard calling one of the woman “slit eye,” the Mirror reported, while another makes a crass comment about smell.
Either Pearson or Smith could also be heard asking Hopper to swap women before the video ends with Hopper and Pearson high-fiving.
The men shared the footage with friends back in the United Kingdom before the Mirror got a hold of it, the newspaper reported.
A Leicester City spokesman said the club is investigating.
“We take conduct of our players at every level extremely seriously and will take appropriate action, if necessary, once the full facts of the situation have been established,” according to a team statement.
“Pending the outcome of an internal investigation, the club will make no further comment.”
Leicester finished 14th in the recently completed Barclays Premiere League season — not far above the bottom three clubs that were demoted to the second tier of English soccer.
