2023-05-23 19:05:41
Two days after hearing racist insults in Mestalla and threatening his possible departure from Valencia-Madrid, Vinicius issued a third statement taking advantage of a video in which they saw the insults to Roberto Carlos, the former Madrid defender, who now has a position in the structure of the white club. “1997. Racism in Spanish stadiums existed even before I was born”, wrote the Brazilian striker.
appealed viniciuswho was born three years later (July 12, 2000) to the memory of the racist insults he suffered Robert Carlos in a classic that was played at the Camp Nou.
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“What has changed until today?”, the young footballer asked himself, taking the answer for granted. Nothing has changed in Spanish football since that racist episode denounced by Roberto Carlos (“every time we touched the ball, the public did macaque, monkey things,” said the defender in his day), which he now faces, New Vinicius.
1997
Racism in Spanish stadiums existed even before I was born.
What has changed until today? https://t.co/iaz5U1HAVh
— Vini Jr. (@vinijr) May 23, 2023
In his first statement, issued hours after the defeat and expulsion in Valencia, the striker explained that “Spain is a racist country.” In the second, released on Monday, when not even 24 hours had passed since the racist attack, he provided a video as documentary evidence of the racist insults he has suffered in Valencia, Mallorca, Madrid, Barcelona and Valladolid, among other stadiums, to put an end to a devastating message: “It’s not football, it’s inhumane”. And in the third, and for the moment last, the Madrid player turns to history to make it clear that Spanish football has not advanced at all
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