September 23, 2024, 7:03 PM
September 23, 2024, 7:03 PM
Uruguay’s Peñarol warned on Monday that will apply strong sanctions to anyone who makes a racist gesture during the upcoming Copa Libertadores match against Flamengo of Brazil.
The ‘Manya’ will receive the ‘Mengão’ on Thursday 26 in the second leg of the quarter-finals of the Libertadores, the top club tournament in South American football, scheduled for the Estadio Campeón del Siglo on the outskirts of the Uruguayan capital.
In the first leg last week, The Uruguayan team won 1-0 the Brazilian team at the Maracanã.
“Any person who is identified in the Champion of the Century performing Any racist gesture towards fans or athletes of the rival team will be immediately expelled. from all social records of the Club and will be permanently blacklisted so that she cannot attend a sporting event again,” according to a statement released by the Aurinego club on its social networks.
“At Peñarol we believe in football as a factor of coexistence based on respect and integration. It is up to all of us to make it so. #VAMOSCARBONERO,” the text adds.
Conmebol, organizer of the regional tournaments Copa Libertadores, Copa Sudamericana and Copa América, toughened penalties in 2022 applied to clubs or associations when their fans engage in racist demonstrations during their competitions.
Fines were raised from $30,000 to $100,000. In addition, the possibility of imposing a sanction on a club or association of playing one or more matches behind closed doors, or determining the partial closure of the stadium, was added.
Conmebol made this decision under the slogan “Enough! No more racism in football”after several discriminatory incidents were reported in regional tournaments, especially against Brazilian and Colombian players.
Among the latest cases, last Augustfive incidents of racism were recorded in a week between the Libertadores and Sudamericana, most of them against Brazilian fans or players.
