Two days after hearing racial slurs at Mestalla and threats that he might leave Valencia-Madrid, Vinicius made a third statement, utilizing a video of them insulting Roberto Carlos.is a former Madrid defender who now holds a position in the white club structure. “1997. Racism in Spanish stadiums existed before I was born,” wrote the Brazilian striker.
Born three years later (July 12, 2000), Vinicius appealed to the memory of the racial insults he suffered. robert carlos In a classic played at Camp Nou.
“What has changed so far?” The young football player asked, and he got his answer definitively. In Spanish football, nothing has changed since that racist incident that Roberto Carlos denounced, now facing New Vinicius (‘every time we touched the ball, people did macaque, monkey things,’ said the defender).
In his first statement hours after the defeat and dismissal at Valencia, the forward declared that “Spain is a racist country”. In the second, released on Monday, less than 24 hours after the racist attack, he presented a video as documentary proof of the racial slurs he was subjected to in Valencia, Mallorca, Madrid, Barcelona and Valladolid, among other stadiums. end a devastating message: “This isn’t football, it’s inhumane”. And third and lastly, the Madrid player goes back to history to make it clear that Spanish football has never progressed.