Spain and Brazil will play a friendly against racism in March 2024

Under the motto ‘One skin’ spain y Brazil reinforce their football ties and their social commitments

This friendly will be the tenth meeting between the teams of Spain and Brazil, who have not met since the final of the Confederations Cup of 2013

Las teams from Spain and Brazil will face each other in a friendly to reinforce their commitment against racism and violence in football in March 2024 on national territory, after the agreement between the presidents of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Luis Rubiales, and the Confederation Brazilian Soccer Player, Ednaldo Rodrigues.

As reported by the RFEF in a statement, the match will be played “on Spanish soil” and aims to become a “great football party” between two of the most powerful teams in the world after the latest incidents that affected the Brazilian Real Madrid player Vinicius Junior.

For this reason, the RFEF, the CSD and LaLiga promoted the ‘Racists, get out of football’ campaign, which aims to eradicate racist and xenophobic attitudes from football pitches, making the fans aware that insults or discriminatory attitudes for any reason.

Now, under the motto ‘One skin’ Spain and Brazil reinforce their football ties and their social commitments. The president of the RFEF, Luis Rubiales, already met a few days ago at the Ciudad del Fútbol de Las Rozas (Madrid) with Orlando Leite, Brazil’s ambassador to Spain.

Likewise, Rubiales has maintained frequent contacts with Ednaldo Rodrigues, head of the CBF. Both leaders understood that it was a wonderful opportunity to strengthen ties and shout unanimously against violence in football by holding this friendly.

This friendly will be the tenth meeting between the teams of Spain and Brazil, who have not met since the 2013 Confederations Cup final. Of the nine previous duels, Spain won two and drew another two, with eight goals scored and 14 in against.

In the event that the Spanish team had official commitments in that ‘window’ of March 2024, the RFEF explained that a new location would be sought in the calendar for the celebration of this friendly Spain-Brazil against racism.

“The president of the CBF and I were happy and we agreed that we had to build things, that it was not only regretting what happenedbut also to work together and it occurred to us that we should play this match between two of the best teams in the world”, warned Luis Rubiales in statements provided by the RFEF.

For the leader, this friendship “shows the world” the union of both organizations and their “resolute joint fight in everything that harms the values ​​of football.” “It’s a ‘top’ game that both Spanish fans and the many Brazilians who are among us will be able to enjoy,” he stressed.

“It is a sign to the world that football is to build, that they are values ​​and that it is something positive, and not quite the opposite, that we are the same skin and that it really does not matter where we are from”, added Rubiales, who insisted that Spain “is a welcoming country, where unfortunately there are some undesirables who stain an entire country”. “We want it to be seen that it is not So. This is a country where the whole world can come to enjoy and football is an essential part of our culture”, he pointed out.

In this sense, they dedicate “a lot of resources” so that the RFEF and its Territorials develop “education, training and coexistence plans”, and they also make “a great investment in social actions”.

“The world of football tIt has to be present in all the problems that arise and of course the lack of education and any type of violence has to be eradicated and we are going to do everything in our power from the federation so that this type of behavior is eradicated from the world of football”, continued the president.

Thus, he recalled again that the new Sports Law will give them mechanisms to avoid “conflicts of powers” that occurred with the previous one and that allowed “superior legal orders” to prevent them from executing sanctions. “This is going to end and as this regulation becomes more complete, it will allow us to act decisively from the beginning at the disciplinary level,” he stated.