At the press conference prior to the friendly match between the Spanish Soccer Team and Brazil, Vinicius burst into tears when talking about the racist attacks he suffers. The image once again brought to the headlines the Brazilian player’s struggle to put the racist insults thrown at him from the stands at the center, especially because the Santiago Bernabéu match took place at Mestalla, in the match that Vinicius stopped to point out the people who shouted at him, to claim that racism has no place in football.
“One thing that Vinicius has done very differently from other footballers is to stand up and decide that he was going to be an active voice in the fight against racism,” explains EL PAÍS journalist, David Álvarez. In the video that heads this news, the journalist analyzes the reasons why the footballer is the target of racism: “Placed in the mirror of something that we do not like but we have cultural roots, we turn against the victim because in Ultimately what we want, or what these people want, is for them to shut up.”
