The selection of Brazil arrives launched at the Qatar World Cup. The team led by Tité crushed Tunisia in the Parisian Princes Park (5-1) and ran as one of the big favorites for the title at the next World Cup event.
However, the match was marred by a racist incident. And it is that when the Brazilian striker richarlison he was celebrating his team’s second goal, in the 19th minute, a banana was thrown from the stands of the Paris Saint-Germain stadium. Visibly upset, the Tottenham striker angrily celebrated the goal.
It was not the only incident that marred an attractive night of football in the French capital, as the match, despite being a friendly, had to be briefly interrupted by the use of lasers pointed at the players from the stands.
The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) reacted almost immediately to the incident through its social networks. “The CBF reinforces its position in the fight against racism and repudiates any prejudiced manifestation.”
Curiously, the meeting had begun with the Brazilian footballers carrying a banner against racism, as a result of the situation experienced by Real Madrid player Vinicius in the last days of the Spanish League. In it you could read “Without our black players we would not have stars on our jersey.”
The Brazilian coach Tite also rejected what happened: «In football not everything goes. The stadium is not a place to do whatever you want. The process of education and sanction must also be carried out inside the stadium », he stated annoyed at the press conference after the game.
For his part, Rodrygo Goes, who closely experienced this incident and also the controversy unleashed in Spain around his Real Madrid partner Vinicius Júnior, lamented before the microphones of Cadena COPE what he experienced in the Parisian venue: « We are used to it, with Brazil that always happens.
“We can’t do anything else. We always say, but nobody does anything », she complained.
Neymar, in defense of Vinicius
Much more combative than his teammates in this regard, before the match at the Parc des Princes Neymar used the nets to come out in defense of Vinicius, accused by the Mallorca player Raíllo.
Recently, in an interview on ‘The Majorca Newspaper‘, the Mallorcan captain referred to the fight he and his teammates had on the Santiago Bernabéu pitch with Vinicius, whom he accused of being provocative and hiding behind racism.
«That he dances but that he does not miss, that he does not insult and does not belittle his fellow professionals; then when he is called a provocateur he uses the joker of racism », he explained, assuring that the young Brazilian« commits a lot of disrespect on the field, that he does not insult ».
A few words that found an answer in Neymar, who fully entered the news published by the Brazilian television channel ‘TNT Sports’ with a response full of sarcasm: “Who is Raíllo?”.
