Under the slogan “One Skin”, La Roja and La Canarinha strengthen their commitment against violence in football.
The Spanish and Brazilian national teams will play a friendly against racism in March 2024, as confirmed by the two confederations on Monday, June 5, 2023.
Friendly against racism Spain vs. Brazil: when and why they play, where, time and location
“The Real Spanish Football Federation and the Brazilian Football Federation They have reached an agreement to play a friendly match in March 2024 which will serve to strengthen both entities’ commitment to violence in football and to intensify the good relations already in place. The match will be played on Spanish soil and it will be a great football celebration between two of the most powerful teams on the international stage,” the official statement from the RFEF reads.
According to the same statement, Luis Rubiales, president of the RFEF, was the one who, after the last episodes that hit Vinicius, led the campaign “Racistas, fuera del fútbol”, which aims to eradicate racist and xenophobic attitudes from football pitches and make fans aware that insults or discriminatory attitudes for any reason cannot be tolerated. Now under the motto “One skin”, Spain and Brazil strengthen their football ties and their social commitments.
Always according to what was communicated by the RFEF, Rubiales already met a few days ago in the Ciudad del Fútbol de Las Rozas with Orlando Leite, Ambassador of Brazil to Spain, and has been in regular contact with Ednaldo Rodrigues, head of the CBF. Both leaders understood that it was a great opportunity to strengthen ties and unanimously shout against violence in football by holding this friendly match, spectacle guaranteed.
It should be remembered that March 2024 will be the tenth meeting between the teams of Spain and Brazil, who have not met since the final of the 2013 Confederations Cup. Spain won two of the previous nine matches and played it again two draws, with eight goals for and 14 against.
As reported by the RFEF, both presidents will soon “give more details about the competition celebrations”. In the hypothetical event that the National Team had official commitments in that March 2024 window, a new location on the calendar would be sought for the celebration of this encounter.
Source: Goal