Real Madrid: With its announcement, it thanked all those who stood by Vinicius

Attacks of hatred and racism must be eradicated from our society forever and so spoke personalities from all walks of life and from different national and international institutions after what happened yesterday at the Mestalla stadium.

Our club expresses its gratitude to the supreme authority of world football, FIFA President Gianni Infantino, who has said that matches where these hate crimes are being committed must stop and be stopped.

We also thank the President of Brazil, Lula Da Silva, who is calling for serious measures to be taken to combat this problem and whose victim is, as he said, ”a young man who has succeeded in life and who is becoming one of best football players in the world”.

Likewise, his teammates have shown solidarity and support for Vinicius, both from Real Madrid and from other teams around the world. Legends, players and coaches, some of them as important on the international stage as Ronaldo Nazario, Mbappe, Ferdinand, Neymar, Kaka, Sancho, Lineker, Roberto Carlos or Casemiro, among dozens and dozens of figures of world football.

The unfortunate events that have occurred have gone around the world and shame our football, as they are captured and denounced in the major international media. From the Washington Post or L’Equipe, to name just a few emblematic examples, they strongly underline the serious problem of Spanish football.

And finally, we are surprised by the statements of the president of the Spanish Football Federation, Luis Rubiales, because as the head of Spanish football and the refereeing establishment, he allowed no strong measures to be taken, according to FIFA protocols. , to avoid the situation that has been reached. The image of our football is seriously damaged and tarnished in the eyes of the whole world.

His passivity has contributed to the helplessness and defenselessness of our player Vinicius. The referees, far from acting firmly and applying the regulatory protocols, chose in most cases to suspend and avoid making the decisions that corresponded to them. Just yesterday, the referee and the VAR officials shirked their responsibilities and made unfair decisions based on incomplete images, which were not seen in their entirety, which were biased and led to our player Vinicius being sent off outright.

Unfortunately, what happened yesterday and the handling by the referees and VAR, we don’t see it as an isolated thing, but rather as something that has been repeated in many of our matches. The victim who suffers it can never be held responsible for the crime.

For all these reasons, we are very concerned that no action has been taken by the Spanish Football Federation all this time, despite the obvious and repeated alarm signals that our club has been reporting.