The Real Madrid defender is the victim of a brutal racist attack on networks for voting for Leo Messi
Social networks are a great tool for meeting people and different points of view. Moreover, for the same price, they are a reflection of life, where thousands of cowards, under the guise of anonymity, give free rein to their most basic instincts. The last victim of that intolerant manure heap has been David praises. The Austrian captain committed the ‘unbearable’ crime of voting in favour Messi ahead of his teammate, Karim Benzema, in the awards given by FIFA. Within minutes and hours, Alaba watched as his social networks were flooded with alleged Real Madrid followers calling him all sorts insults, expletives, reproaches, disqualifications and icons of monkeys, accompanied by a wish in the form of hastagh: ‘#PraiseOff’. Shameful.
The tide of nonsense was so great that the Austrian had to declare himself, justifying that those votes were decided by the whole team and that he admires Benzema. How rotten must this circus be if a man has to apologize for exercising his free right to vote to stop being harassed by radicals, dysfunctional and racists. It is plausible that some Madrid fans are disappointed in Alaba for breaking the alleged club discipline of always voting for his teammates. Don’t let anyone cheat solitaire. Humans have thin skin. Something similar would have happened if Gavi had voted for Vinicius before Pedri or if Griezmann had voted for Ancelotti before Simeone. Now that disappointment has crossed all boundaries as Alaba has had to endure a barrage of indefensible racist insults And awful. Attacks that do not come from fans of other teams, but from their own own fans.
The attack on Alaba should put that bunch of mononeurals to shame. It should also invite a certain sector of Real Madrid to think about racism, so that they understand that it is not something selective, because this problem exists in society and in all hobbies, not just those of rivals. You can’t fill your mouth calling rival fans racist when you mistreat a player from your own team in that way. Racism is not a wild card invoked on demand nor a thrown weapon used as an alibi to encourage sports hatred. It’s a serious problem. A serious one, which we all have to fight. Spain is not a racist country, but it does have a very serious problem with this social scourge. The reprehensible songs to download williamssings to the monkey Vinicius and his doll, the humiliation of the deceased wilfredthe banner of Anne Frank comes from Atleti the banana alvenagainst the cries Eto’o and the unfortunate delivery with Peter Frederick are some examples. And they cannot be tolerated, nor protected, nor justified.
Racism is not a wild card for fans. Nor is it selective. It’s not about T-shirts. Racism is a cancer. One that cannot be reproduced on social networks, on the street and in the field. One we should all remove so he doesn’t go wild. We need him outside of football and society.
Reuben Uria
Source: Goal