Once again, Spanish football experienced a shameful episode of racist insults. This time, it was the turn of the Coliseum, where a sector of the public that went to the Getafe stadium dedicated itself to dirtying a sport that seems to be light years away from others in which, as Quique Sánchez Flores said, there is a different atmosphere.
The Sevilla coach, after denouncing at a press conference that some fans who were behind his bench They called him “gypsy”, He made it clear that the new generations that come after the current ones should have the right to enjoy a stadium as is done in tennis, basketball or golf. “There they are going to have a good time and not be insulted,” Quique highlighted in a press conference.
The reality is that the actions of some Getafe fans obscured an entertaining football match. Sergio Ramos’ goal, Orjan Nyland’s saves and the attacks of the azulón team that bottled up their rival took a backseat after a day to forget at the Coliseum.
The first warning was given by referee Javier Iglesias Villanueva. At the request of one of his linemen, he stopped the game in the 68th minute for some racist chants at Marcos Acuña. Quickly, he addressed the Getafe delegate, Manuel Mejuto González, so that they could demand through the public address system the cessation of those chants.
Later, in the minutes, he accurately reflected everything he had to hear Acuña: «In the 68th minute I had to stop the match because there were racist insults on the number 19 of the visiting team, with words like ‘Acuña mono’ and ‘Acuña you come from the monkey’ from fans located in the central area of the field behind the position of my assistant referee.
It didn’t all end there. Later, Quique Sánchez Flores reported to the media that he also received a racist insult. Some fans of what was his team in three different stages called him ‘gypsy’. Quique, he gave an impeccable speech.
«I want to say that I am proud of every pore of my veins that can breathe gypsy. But it is one thing to be a gypsy and another to be used as a racist insult. It seems aberrant to me. Here, part of the public, because there is part that doesn’t, believes that they can go to a stadium and say whatever they want,” he denounced.
He also regretted that football stadiums are a circus that some use to insult everyone who goes to work in a venue where one would have to breathe a very different atmosphere adapted to modern times.
“For those of us who want this to become a leisure activity that is passionate and brings people together in a forum with values and the desire to have a good time, we cannot turn it into a circus that sacrifices, pointing the finger, at certain players,” Indian.
At Getafe, his coach José Bordalás backed his words. Also defender Djené Dakonam. They didn’t hide. Although the insults to both Acuña and Quique came from his fans, they criticized and condemned actions that seem entrenched in football.
«I am against any chant, even if it is a minority. I agree with Quique. We have been denouncing this for some time and until serious measures are taken, unfortunately we will continue to hear them. Our players have suffered it in many scenarios. “I am against any insult or racist chant to anyone and in any stadium,” said Bordalás.
“If there is a chant here (in the Coliseum), the game has to stop because this cannot be,” Djené added.
Sergio Ramos, the scorer of Sevilla’s winning goal, also spoke out after being asked about the racist chants that Acuña had to listen to.
«We have been demanding respect within football. Let people not come to a stadium to free themselves and say nonsense, to insult the players. “We must put an end to this type of people, point it out, let people see it and prohibit them from entering the stadiums to clean up the image of football, which should be a wonderful sport to unite and not separate,” he commented.
It seems that in Spain football has become one of the few sporting strongholds in which some fans seem to believe that they have free rein to hurl insults of all kinds towards the players, referees and coaching staff who do their work in the stadiums.
And, perhaps, Quique hit the key in another of his correct statements after the game against Getafe. The Sevilla coach pointed out that, perhaps, when someone “very fat” and important is insulted, the mechanisms of the powers that have to get to work seriously will be activated once and for all.
There was a message that the small sector of Coliseum fans who turned a good football game into a shameful afternoon that should be the last in which a stadium endures the insults of a minority that must be eradicated must take note. EFE
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