2023-05-22 05:48:31
They seemed to have taken some steps forward, symbolic but concrete acts beyond declamations and slogans, in an attempt to make from the stage of world football, progress will be made on racism. The episode suffered by Vinicius Jr. this Sunday, when from the stands from the Valencia stadium they machine-gunned him with racist insultsIt is a sign that for every step forward we take three steps back.
His trainer, Carlo Ancelotti (of an overwhelming good sense), was outraged. He raised his voice during the match itself when he asked the referee to cut him off. Also later, when he said that on this day there was no need to talk about football but about what had just happened. Ancelotti could not believe that he had to decide if Vinicius continued playing or leftfrustrated by discriminatory insults.
Everything got worse when Vinicius, emotionally upset, ended up expelled after a brawl in the field and making contemptuous gestures at the Valencian fans.
Already expelled, Vinicius responds to the offenses with mockery (AP Photo / Alberto Saiz).The succession of solidarity voices in the networks: Mbappe, Neymar, El Gordo Ronaldo, Sampaoli, is a favorable reaction. They are strong characters, with many followers. but it is late and insufficient. Among his colleagues on the court there was no such support. Already The idiots who yelled “monkey” at Vinicius (even those most driven by their hatred of the enemy into which they turn a rival footballer, than by a real supremacist motivation) do not care that a while later Mbappé challenges them in cyberspace.
Ancelotti said that LaLiga has a problem “and it’s not Vinicius”. He means: the problem is what he does (or what he doesn’t do) with hatred of Vinicius and blacks. Let’s add that it’s not a LaLiga problem either. It belongs to the entire soccer world, which evolves much more slowly than humanity.
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