By Euronews en español con EFE • last update: 22/05/2023 – 12:02
The player Vinícius Jr. issued a harsh statement saying that Spain “is a racist country” after he suffered racist insults in the match between Real Madrid and Valencia. The coach of the white team, Ancelotti, has indicated that the insults came “from all over the stadium”.
It all started when the player received racist insults from the stands. The match was stopped for 8 minutes until the field security team kicked out the identified fans. Later, the player returned to the game, but there was a play in which Vinícius ended up sent off. The Valencia player, Hugo Duro grabbed Vinícius by the neck and he, after getting rid of it, hit the Valencia forward with his arm in the face; which, after being reviewed in the VAR, ended in a red card for Vinícius.
What does the referee’s minutes of the match say?
The referee Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea collected in the minutes of the match between Real Madrid and Valencia that “a spectator” yelled at the Brazilian Vinícius Junior “monkey, monkey” and that for this reason he activated the racism protocol.
“In the 73rd minute a spectator from the south stand “Mario Kempes” addressed Real Madrid CF player No. 20 Don Vinicius José De Oliveira Do Nascimiento yelling at him: “Monkey, monkey” for which the racism protocol was activated, warning the field delegate to make the corresponding announcement over the public address system. The match was stopped until said announcement was broadcast over the stadium’s public address system,” the referee wrote.
In addition, he pointed out that he activated the object launch protocol after “several objects” fell in the same area in the Real Madrid area.
On the other hand, de Burgos Bengoetxea explained the decision to send off Vinícius junior in the seventh minute of the second half after the review by the VAR.
The statement from Valencia
From Valencia they issued a statement stating that the insults were an isolated incident: “The club, in its commitment to the values of respect and sport, publicly reaffirms its position against physical and verbal violence in stadiums and regrets the facts that occurred during the match against Real Madrid. Although it is an isolated episode, insults to any footballer from the rival team have no place in football and do not fit with the values and identity of Valencia,” the statement said.
In addition, the club’s corporate director, Javier Solís, came out after the game to show the club’s dissatisfaction with the statements by Carlo Ancelotti, who at a press conference denounced that Mestalla sang Vinícius “monkey” and not “stupid”.
“Given the unfortunate statements by Ancelotti in which he has branded all the fans as racist, we cannot tolerate it. Possibly it is the result of a mistake in the language, he will have understood another word. He will have to apologize, in the same way that we condemn racist insults,” he said.
Solís said that “I understand that they will tell Vinícius that he cannot behave like that or reproduce those gestures. I found it unpleasant, a player cannot send an entire stadium to the Second Division without him being convicted. Valencia will apply its internal regulations with the greatest severity and will lead to the expulsion of this or these fans, who are working on displaying the images”.
LaLiga has opened an investigation
LaLiga will investigate the incidents that occurred and could take legal action. “Given the incidents that occurred during Valencia CF – Real Madrid CF at the Mestalla Stadium, LaLiga reports that it has requested all available images to investigate what happened. Once the investigation is complete, if any hate crime is detected, LaLiga will proceed to take the appropriate legal actions,” LaLiga said in a statement.
“LaLiga will also investigate the images in which racist insults were allegedly directed at Vinicius Jr. outside the Mestalla stadium,” he added.
In addition, the employers recalled that they have been pursuing these racist attitudes against Vinícius for some time.
“LaLiga has been proactive in the face of all racist incidents against the Real Madrid CF player, Vinicius Jr. Thus, LaLiga has filed a complaint nine times in the last 2 seasons before the RFEF Competition Committee, State Commission against Violence , Racism, Xenophobia and Intolerance in Sport, the Hate Prosecutor’s Office and the Courts,” he said.
What does Vinicius Jr. say in the statement after the match?
The player, however, issued a statement in which he said: “It was not the first time, nor the second, nor the third. Racism is normal in the League. The competition sees it as normal, the Federation also and even the opponents encourage it. I’m so sorry. The championship that belonged to Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Cristiano and Messi is today for racists”, indicated the white player who added: _”It is a beautiful country, which welcomed me and which I love, but which agreed to export the image to the world of a racist country. I’m sorry for the Spanish people who don’t agree, but today in Brazil, Spain is known as a country of racists. And unfortunately, because of everything that happened every week, I have no way to defend myself. But I am strong and I will go to the end against the racists, even if it is far from here.”
The director of LaLiga himself, Javier Tebas, has had to defend the organization against generalization by issuing the following tweet: Since those who should do not explain what LaLiga is and what it can do in cases of racism, we have tried to explain it to you, but You have not shown up for either of the two agreed dates that you requested yourself. Before criticizing and insulting LaLiga, it is necessary that you inform yourself properly. Don’t let yourself be manipulated and make sure you fully understand each other’s competencies and the work we have been doing together:
Props that Vinicius receives
He fifa presidentthe swiss Gianni Infantinohas shown its solidarity with the Brazilian Vinicius Jr, Real Madrid winger, who once again suffered racist insults, this time at the Mestalla stadium during the match against Valencia.
“All our solidarity with Vinícius. There is no place for racism in football or in society, and FIFA supports all the players who have suffered it in their own flesh,” said the top leader of world football in a message posted on their social media.
“The events that occurred during the match between Valencia and Real Madrid show how crucial this fight is,” Infantino pointed out in his message, in which he recalled that for this “there is a three-step process in FIFA competitions and recommends that it be used at all levels of football”.
The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) and its president Ednaldo Rodrigues They showed their support for Vinícius Junior, a Real Madrid winger, after the racist insults he received at Mestalla, which they described as a “crime”, and defended that “skin color can no longer bother” and “there is no joy where there is racism “.
“How long are we going to live, in the 21st century, episodes like the one we have just witnessed, once again, in LaLiga? How long will humanity continue to be a spectator and complicit in cruel acts of racism? How long will we need Remember that it is a crime? How long will we have to fight for concrete and effective attitudes on and off the pitches?” asked the CBF in a statement.
Signed by Ednaldo Rodrigues, the letter conveyed all his support to Vinícius. “There is no joy where there is racism. You have all our love and that of all Brazilians, Vinícius.”
“Not only you, but all those who have suffered and are suffering from this global disease that is racism. The color of the skin can no longer bother,” he said.
The President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvacondemned the racism attacks suffered this Sunday by the Brazilian soccer player Vinicius Jr. and asked that FIFA and La Liga take “serious measures” against those responsible.
“It is not fair that a poor young man who succeeded in life and who is becoming one of the best soccer players” should suffer this type of attack, Lula said before beginning the press conference on the balance of his participation in the summit. of G7, where he was the only invited Latin American leader.
“We cannot allow fascism and racism to take over football stadiums,” he emphasized.
Carlo Ancelotti, coach of Real Madrid, He qualified his harsh press conference in a subsequent message in which he assured that it had been “a sad day at Mestalla, where a group of fans” had “showed their worst version” and that it was “time to stop talking and act forcefully “because “racism cannot have a place in football or in society”, and Vinicius’s teammates closed ranks towards the Brazilian unequivocally. Even the Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois assured that if the winger had wanted to retire from the field, he would have gone with him.
Valencia, in turn, announced last night that it had located two supporters suspected of having uttered racist insults against the Real Madrid winger after viewing the images from the security cameras and confirmed its intention to go “to the end” against these fans.
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