Barça has issued a statement this Wednesday to “vigorously” condemn the racist insults that its basketball player James Nnaji received before entering the WiZink Center to play the third game of the Endesa League final, which finally ended with the league title of the Barcelona team.
“The club, which has already made the competition aware of what happened, expects a firm and exemplary response from the ACB, against any racial or verbal abuse,” the blaugrana entity asked the basketball association, which recently condemned and transferred to the competent bodies the cries of “murderer, murderer” to Yabusele during the third semifinal game between Joventut and Madrid.
Hours after Barça’s statement, the ACB deeply regretted the “serious insults uttered by some individuals to the Barça players when they got off the bus”. In addition, it ensures that once the videos with the images have been collected, they have transferred all the information to Antiviolence. “The ACB wants to reaffirm its firm commitment against racism, xenophobia, violence and intolerance in sport,” he concluded.
One of the supporters of the white team called Nnaji a “shit black whore” and later it was heard “Barça, racist, Spain is a Madridista”. “It’s unfortunate, it can’t be, I hear a lot about Vinícius and now we have to talk about what’s happening, because this has to stop now”, lamented the Barcelona coach, Sarunas Jasikevicius, who made reference to what happened with the Brazilian player , which received the support of various sports institutions, also political, after being rebuked with racist insults.
“This doesn’t fit with the values ??of Real Madrid and its fans and we have to be very angry. This can’t be, I don’t care if it’s a player from Real Madrid or Barça or from another team,” added the Lithuanian coach. Mirotic was also rebuked, who was called a “rat”, and a day before, also at the WiZink Center, a group of people shouted “whore Barça” at Spain’s celebration of the Nations League when Barcelona player Gavi took the microphone.
