A friend and adviser to Vinícius Júnior, Felipe Silveira, claimed to have suffered a racist episode by a security guard at the RCDE Stadium in Cornellà-El Prat, moments before the friendly between Brazil and Guinea, according to the Globo group. The complainant explained that when going through the turnstiles of the Espanyol stadium, a private security guard took a banana out of his pocket while checking him out and snapped: “Hands up, this is my gun for you.”
According to ‘ge’, who captured a photograph of the banana inside the guard’s pocket, the incident caused the indignation of Silveira and other members of Vinícius Júnior’s personal team, who immediately called the police.
After the game, Vinícius condemned the episode on his social networks, which he described as “disgusting”, and asked for the disclosure of the images from the stadium’s security cameras. “While I was playing with the already historic black jersey and I was excited, my friend was humiliated at the entrance to the stadium. The treatment was sad, at all times they doubted the surreal scene that happened. The scenes are disgusting. But to make it all public I ask those responsible: where are the images from the security cameras?” demanded the Real Madrid winger.
The Brazilian team thrashed Guinea this Saturday (4-1) in a friendly played at Cornellà-El Prat, in Barcelona, ??a more than symbolic football match, as it became an act of protest against racism in football.
The Canarinha wore a completely black uniform in the first half for the first time in its history within the campaign of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) to condemn racial discrimination in sport. This and other initiatives arose from the international uproar caused by the racist insults that Vinícius Júnior received on May 21 at Mestalla by groups of Valencia fans in a Spanish League match.
The attacks against the extreme merengue, which have been repeated throughout the season in other stadiums in the country, were condemned by the highest authorities in Brazil, including President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who demanded action to put an end to it. to that situation.
