Felipe Silveira, friend and adviser to Vinicius Júnior, claimed this Saturday to have suffered a serious racist episode by a security guard of the Stage Front Stadium of Cornellà-El Pratmoments before friendly between Brazil and Guineaaccording to the Globo group.
Silveira, black, He assures the ‘ge’ portal that when he went through the turnstiles of the Espanyol stadium he was checked by a private security guard, who suddenly took a banana out of his pocket and blurted out: “Hands up, this is my weapon against you”.
According to ‘ge’, who captured a photograph of the banana inside the guard’s pocket, the incident caused the indignation of Silveira and other members of Vinicius Júnior’s personal team, who immediately called the police.
A colleague of the alleged attacker tried to remove him from the premises, but the striker’s staff real Madrid he prevented it so that he could be identified by the authorities, according to ‘ge’.
The Brazilian team will play a friendly against Guinea this Saturday at the Cornella-El Prat, in Barcelona, in a more than symbolic football match, as it has become an act of protest against racism in football.
The Canarinha wore a completely black uniform for the first time in its history within the campaign of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) to condemn racial discrimination in sport.
This and other initiatives arose from the international uproar caused by the racist insults that Vinicius Júnior received on May 21 in mestalla by groups of Valencia fans in a LaLiga match.
The attacks against the extreme merengue, which have been repeated throughout the season in other stadiums in the country, were condemned by the highest authorities in Brazil, including the president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvawho demanded actions to put an end to that situation.
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