La Liga and Los Blancos don’t deserve to have Vinicius Junior – 05/22/2023 – Sandro Macedo

La Liga is racist. No Spanish team deserves to have Vinicius Jr. in the squad, nor Real Madrid, known as Los Blancos for the predominant color of their uniform —like Santos, of black and King Pelé.

I started the weekend wanting to talk about the monotonous Manchester Emirates City in the Premier League, or Bayern missing the Alemão; or the grand final that won’t happen in the NBA between Lakers and Celtics (beaten by Nuggets and Heat). But there is no topic more urgent than yet another case of racism against Vini Jr. in La Liga, this time at the Mestalla stadium, against Valencia.

The images are available for anyone who wants to see them and, this time, they went beyond the shouts of “monkey” in the stands.

When he was insulted and then argued on the field with the (white) goalkeeper of Valencia, Vini Jr. he was grabbed from behind by Hugo Duro (white and Spanish), who applied a rear naked choke. A shocking scene.

As he frees himself, Vini hits his Spanish opponent in the face. The VAR-racist kicks in. Vini was expelled. Hugo Duro didn’t even get yellow. It’s the most absurd scene in European football this year.

Carlo Ancelotti, who last year said he didn’t see racism in Spain, surrendered to the obvious and said in the post-match that the match should have been stopped. Real Madrid, finally, manifested itself a little more forcefully, but it is still very little.

The new case was the eighth in this La Liga season alone against Vini — the tenth if we go back to October 2021. If we imagine that Los Blancos have played 18 times as visitors (Sevilla is missing), it can almost be said that Vini is a victim of racism once and for all. once every two away games.

As no punishment happened in the previous cases, nothing indicates that something different will happen now. It will fall into the mass grave of the “isolated case”. Incidentally, the referee didn’t even put the insult “monkey” on the scoresheet (he included it later, as an addendum, when the case gained worldwide repercussions).

Racism is nothing new in football, but racists have gained a rival. Vini Jr. bought the fight and challenges the powerful league by threatening to even leave Real. I hope he stays strong. This time, the Brazilian has the support of the State. Even Lula interrupted conversations about the economy or politics to defend Vini in the middle of the G7 meeting.

Today’s racism is more harmful to football than the hooliganism of the 1980s. In 1985, the Champions League final between Juventus (champion) and Liverpool ended in tragedy, when hooligans entered the middle of the Italian crowd causing panic, running and pitch invasion . The Heysel (name of the stadium, Belgium) tragedy resulted in 39 deaths and more than 600 injuries.

After the fact, the mighty UEFA banned English clubs from European competition for five years.
Today, almost hostage to country clubs (PSG, Manchester City and now Newcastle) by turning a blind eye to the non-existent financial fair play, Uefa needs to show some strength in the fight against racism.

This scribe votes for the same punishment that quelled hooliganism: five years banishment for all Spaniards, including Real.

Lux, the philosopher pumpers
In yet another picturesque interview, now after the defeat to Flamengo, Luxemburgo, Vanderlei, made an analogy to explain what attitude was. “If your house has two bathrooms and you are in doubt which one to go to, you’ll do it in your pants. You have to take the attitude of going to the bathroom, if you do it in your pants, you’ll never go wrong, but you have to take it attitude.”

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