Madrid/Prensa Latina
I just want to play soccer and never see black people suffer, was the headline this Monday left by Brazilian soccer player Vinicius Junior before breaking down in tears at a press conference.
Asked several times about racism, the Real Madrid forward who will wear the colors of Brazil this Tuesday in the friendly against Spain here, could not hold back his tears when he recognized how hard the process of assimilating the offenses he repeatedly receives is being for him.
“I feel more and more sad, no one is supporting me. The problem that exists in Spain is that racism is not a crime. It happened to my father too, they chose a white man over a black man,” stressed the 23-year-old Brazilian.
At least formally, the canarinho received the support of the most influential Spanish media, including Marca, As Deportivo, Sport, Mundo Deportivo, the radio networks Cope, SER and Onda Cero, and the specialized spaces of the main channels. television, in addition to Movistar.
A pillar of Real Madrid in the current season, Vinicius will be the main protagonist tomorrow in his club’s stadium, the ultra-modern Santiago Bernabéu, where the Brazil-Spain duel will be dedicated to the fight against racism.
After recovering in the pre-match conference and receiving applause from journalists, he was firm and clear about his future.
I have never thought about leaving Spain, because doing so would be giving the racists what they want. I’m not going to leave the best club in the world. I will remain firm and strong, because the president and the team support me, he stated.
His teammate Dani Carvajal, at the press conference in the Iberian country, said that “unfortunately there are people who go to football, it seems, to vent their anger, their rage. When it seems that someone is hurting, they throw it out there and it is a shame,” although he considered that Spain is not a racist nation.
“These types of people cannot enter stadiums because it is the ugliest thing that exists in this sport,” said the side of the merengue team.
In numerous areas of the Spanish LaLiga, the dynamic player received insults of different types, from monkey, chimpanzee, die, fool, and shitty black, reported to the authorities, but with little impact.
Last year, a doll with his shirt number and name appeared hanging on a bridge near Madrid. After an investigation, four people were prosecuted.
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