Luis Rubiales, president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), said this Monday that Spanish football “a problem racism“, after insulting Real Madrid’s Brazilian football player Vinícius Junior at Mestalla during La Liga Santander’s match against Valencia.
The leader appeared in Ciudad del Fútbol de Las Rozas (Madrid) to make a corporate statement without question from the media for his role. “The best manager in Spanish football” and for something he thinks “has taken on a dimension beyond football,” and he admits: “not the first time”.
“We have a problem, first of all to realize it, behavior, education and racism. As long as there is a single unwanted or a group of unwanted people who are insulting because of their sexual status, creed or skin color, we have a problem as well. It tarnishes an entire team, a hobby, a club, and an entire country.“, Rubiales stressed.
The head of the RFEF underlined this. “A problem that stains the whole of Spanish football” and he didn’t want to talk about Vinícius’ behavior because that can’t happen. “Compare a grain of sand with a desert”. “He’s definitely more right than we think, and we can all do more,” he said.
Also, the president commended LaLiga president Javier Tebas to respond to the football player via social networks and “irresponsible behavior”. The managers are not here for that, we are here to solve problems and this football player was seriously attacked, it was not the time,” he complained.