A disaster in one tweet. On his personal account, the former figure of international football José Luis Chilavert found nothing better to do than to denigrate the behavior of the Brazilian Vinicius, in tears this Monday at a press conference after a question about the racist attacks he is regularly a victim.
“Bread and circuses, the first to insult and attack his rivals is him,” wrote the former Paraguay goalkeeper. Before slipping miserably onto the homophobic field: “Don’t be a bitch, football is for men. »
Chilavert, known in France for having worn the colors of Strasbourg between 2000 and 2002, is today trying to exist in the media via the political arena. For the moment, it is a dismal failure. In the 2023 presidential election, he received barely 2% of the votes in the first round. However, it has immense popularity.
This type of comment is obviously not likely to reassure the fight against intolerance. At a press conference, before the match between Spain and Brazil under the slogan “One Skin” to fight against racism, Brazilian striker Vinicius Junior could not hold back his tears on the subject. Recurring victim, including an episode in Valencia in 2023 which caused international indignation and pushed the authorities to recognize that the country had “a problem” with racial discrimination, the Real Madrid player returned to this difficult moment on Monday .
“It’s something quite sad, it’s something that happens here every game, every day. Every complaint from me makes me very sad, said the Real player according to comments cited by the newspaper Brand. But like all black people in the world… It’s something sad. It’s something that’s happening. I am fighting so that in the near future this will no longer happen to anyone. »
