Brasileirão: players from Fortaleza and Vasco protest against racism

Strength – The eighth round of the Brazilian Championship opened this weekend will feature 10 games where the teams will participate in a campaign to combat racism promoted by the CBF. During the event held at the Castelão stadium between Vasco and Fortaleza, this Saturday afternoon both teams decided to manifest themselves on social networks, disclosing the scale of the teams excluding the names and photos of the black players.

All players in this round of the championship will enter the field wearing the phrase “with racism there is no game”. Then everyone sat on the lawn right after the opening whistle in support of the campaign. Referees and coaches also participated in the action against racial prejudice.

⚽️✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽 Arbitration commission and players from Fortaleza and Vasco protest against racism.#ComRacismoNoTemJogo pic.twitter.com/GBlnMXQXQk

— Portal Em Tempo (@emtempofb) May 27, 2023

Fortaleza won the dispute against the team from Rio by 2-0, breaking the fast of 5 matches without winning. With the victory, the tricolor from Ceará reached 13 points and provisionally entered the G-6 of the championship.

The campaign will also be carried out in the other eight matches of this round of the competition, which ends on Sunday (28). The captains’ banners, the coins used by referees and the match balls also had the phrase “with racism there is no game” engraved.

*With information from CBF

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