Álex Remiro is a firm supporter of acting when you want to change things. In 2019, tired of hearing many fans addressing footballers in an offensive manner, he became a promoter in Spain of the Chilean NGO Fútbol Más, in which he is involved to such an extent that he works directly in talks and workshops with the players and their families. of 50 non-professional clubs in Gipuzkoa to promote good behavioral practices inside and outside the stadiums.
The player discovers himself in this talk before Frank T, one of the most respected voices in Spanish rap, with almost three decades of activity, and host of the Podium podcast There are no blacks in Tibet. Frank T, born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo but raised from a very young age in Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid), has always been struck by the fact that fans go to a stadium to insult its protagonists: the footballers. “I think it’s the only job where this happens. It is not fair that a footballer has to endure that pressure, not all mentalities are equally strong.”
“When I have had to experience something like this I have felt a mixture of disgust, anger and discomfort,” explains Remiro, who true to his decisive personality calls for action: “The people who are next to that person who insults also have the right , just like us, to raise our voices, to point it out, and for that person to be portrayed,” he suggests.
Frank T is interested in the courses and workshops that Remiro teaches. “Who learns more?” he asks. “The parents,” Remiro states emphatically. “Children are clear about the things they don’t like their parents to do: shout, fight with others or draw attention to themselves.”
The Monitor for the Observation of Hate in Sports
LALIGA has developed a tool that independently monitors the conversation on social networks and audits the level of hatred and racism spread around Spanish professional football: one more step in its efforts to detect and eradicate violence and hate speech in football and in society. Every day and using a semantic engine with more than 50,000 linguistic rules and artificial intelligence algorithms, MOOD tracks up to 800,000 messages, calculating metrics that allow the fan to evaluate the progress of our football in this fight week by week.
The tool that measures the level of hate in conversations around football day by day
CREDITS
Of the project Juan Antonio Carbajo (Editorial coordination) | Adolfo Domenech (Design Coordination) | Daniel Domínguez (Editor) | Alejandro Martín (Editor) | Juan Sánchez (Design) | Rodolfo Mata (Development)
Of the video Quique Oñate (Realization) | Maria Page (Editing) | Paloma Oliveira (Production)
From the audio Elia Fernández Granados (Executive production) | Laura Escarza (Script and production) | Dani Gutiérrez (Sound editing)
With the collaboration of LALIGA Anastasia Llorens, Dúnia Martín, Margherita Bertuol and María Lapeña.
