Mestalla in Valencia (May 2023) and a start. “It wasn’t the first time”. Metropolitan in Madrid (September 2022). El Nuevo Zorrilla in Valladolid (December 2022). Last Moix in Mallorca (February 2023). Camp Nou in Barcelona (March 2023) and once again, official Mestalla last Sunday not forgetting the baby hanging from a bridge in Madrid on the way to the sports city of Valdebebas. Vinicius posted a long message on his Instagram account, tagging the photos in Spanish, Portuguese and English, asking, “How long will it take?” he asks. He ends with a terrific sentence: “This isn’t football, it’s inhuman.”
Madrid striker received this Monday morning Visit of President Florentino Pérez, He talks about his experiences every time he leaves the Bernabéu. “Every game away from home has been an unpleasant surprise. And there have been many this season,” said Vinicius, who made two statements in just 24 hours after his experience at Mestalla. The first was to accuse “Spain is a racist country” and the second was to discuss with visuals how “inhuman” it was for him to play outside the Bernabéu.
“They are not isolated cases”
“Death threats, hanging doll, many criminal complaints…”The Brazilian striker recalls that all these racist insults, according to him, always come from “on isolated occasions” or “from a torcedor”. However, Vinicius argued that “these are not isolated cases, but are continuous episodes (even in a television show) spread across various cities of Spain.”
And, as Vinicius remembers, to leave no doubt about the racism he was subjected to.“evidence in video”, “How many of these racists were named and exposed on the internet. I’m answering to make it easier. Zero”.
That’s why he persisted in his complaints. “What else does it take to criminalize these people? Have clubs been penalized sportingly? Why don’t sponsors endorse La Liga? Doesn’t television take the trouble to broadcast this barbarism every weekend?” said the Madrid football player, “The problem is extremely serious and communication is no longer working. He also blames me for criminal acts.”