2024-03-25 19:23:52
Brazilian striker Vinicius Junior said on Monday that his “desire to play” football was “diminishing” as racist incidents against him accumulate in Spain, during a press conference where he burst into tears.
“I’m sorry. I just want to play football. I just want to play, I want to do everything for my club and for my family and for black people to never suffer again,” Vinicius told the press, very moved. .
The Real Madrid player spoke on the eve of the Spain-Brazil friendly match (9:30 p.m.) organized in response to the racist insults of which he has frequently been the victim since his arrival in Madrid in 2018.
“I’ve been seeing this for a long time, and every time it happens I feel sadder, and every time I want to play less,” he explained, wiping away tears.
The 23-year-old striker believes, like his club teammate Dani Carvajal, that Spain is not “a racist country”, but “that there are a lot of racists, a large number of them in the stadiums”.
“Since the first time I complained about racism in Spain, the situation has continued to get worse… They insult me because of the color of my skin so that I play less well on the pitch” he said.
Frequently targeted by opposing supporters, “Vini”, who despite himself became a leader of the anti-racist fight, nevertheless assured that he had “never thought” of leaving Real, because “that would prove the racists right” .
“I will stay in the best club in the world, scoring as many goals as possible,” promised Vinicius, who will be the most scrutinized player on Tuesday at the Santiago-Bernabéu with the Seleção.
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