After several episodes against Real Madrid’s Brazilian striker Vinicius Junior, two matches were suspended this weekend due to xenophobic and racist insults. La Liga is worried about this and wants to take tougher measures against the perpetrators of these insults.
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Two matches darkened the football weekend in Spain. In the 3rd division, a Spanish club refused to finish a match on Saturday after an altercation between its goalkeeper and a supporter accused of having hurled racist insults at him, a few hours after Sevilla FC condemned similar insults towards one of his players and his coach.
Rayo Majadahonda’s Senegalese goalkeeper Cheikh Kane Sarr was sent off in the 84th minute of the match against Sestao River after an altercation with a fan behind his goal, prompting his team to leave the field and the referees to stop the match. According to the Spanish press, several supporters of Sestao River, near Bilbao, insulted Cheikh Sarr, 23, after their team’s second goal at the end of the match.
ℹ️Nuestro equipo no saldrá de nuevo a reanudar el encuentro tras recibir inadmissible racist insults à nuestro jugador.
We condemn all types of racist insults during the deportation.
— CF Rayo Majadahonda 🤍⚡️💙 (@RMajadahonda) March 30, 2024
“ It’s an absolute shame what happened today. Part of the stadium uttering racist insults against our teammate Cheikh Sarr because of the color of his skinregretted Rayo captain Jorge Casado on Instagram. What a shame, it seems crazy that it’s 2024 and we have brainless idiots in stadiums running amok. We are all Sheikh, no to racism “, he added.
Two more incidents in Getafe
A little earlier today, Sevilla FC had already condemned “ racist and xenophobic insults » suffered during his match in Getafe by the Argentinian Marcos Acuna, treated as “ monkey “, according to the arbitration report, and by coach Quique Sanchez Flores who claims to have been treated as ” Gypsy “. “ It’s one thing to be gypsy or part gypsy and another to use it as a racist insult – I find it abhorrent », Commented the coach who said he was proud of his origins.
These incidents come a few days after a friendly match “for tolerance” between Spain and Brazil, organized Tuesday in Madrid in response to racist insults What Real Madrid’s Brazilian striker Vinicius Junior is going throughsince his arrival in 2018. Shortly before a friendly match between Brazil and Spain, he burst into tears, saying that racism took away the desire to continue playing.
“ We had three vile cases of racism in Spain this Saturday alone », Regretted this weekend the Brazilian striker of Real Madrid Vinicius Junior, on the social network a wave of international indignation and had pushed the authorities to recognize that the country had “ a problem » with racial discrimination.
This is the end of the week, nor will it be judged. However, there are many despicable cases of racism in Spain only this is bad.
Todo mi apoyo a Acuña @AcunaMarcos17 y al entrepreneur Quique Flores, del @SevillaFC . A Sarr y al @RMajadahonda that her valentía inspires a los demás. The racists…
— Vini Jr. (@vinijr) March 30, 2024
The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has promised to impose tough and dissuasive sanctions against the clubs concerned.
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