{"id":129239,"date":"2025-08-07T09:56:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T09:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=129239"},"modified":"2025-08-07T09:56:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T09:56:48","slug":"brazil-demo-over-spanish-soccer-racism-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=129239","title":{"rendered":"Brazil demo over Spanish soccer racism row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RzvR7q85Kcc?rel=0&#038;cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>(24 May 2023)<br \/>\nRESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP AND SNTV CLIENTS MAY USE <\/p>\n<p>ASSOCIATED PRESS &#8211; AP AND SNTV CLIENTS MAY USE<br \/>\nSao Paulo, Brazil  &#8211;  23 May 2023<\/p>\n<p>1. 00.08 Various of demonstrator speaking<\/p>\n<p>2. 00.20 Various of demonstrators outside Spain\u2019s consulate holding a sign reading (Portuguese) \u201cVini Jr we are with you\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2. 00.31 Various of projection on the consulate\u2019s walls reading (Portuguese) \u201cLa Liga is racist\u201d<\/p>\n<p>3. 00.40 Demonstrator holding banner reading (Portuguese) \u201cIt is not about soccer. La Liga is racist\u201d<\/p>\n<p>4. 00.46 SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Andre Alexandre, President of Black Movement, Unegro:<br \/>\n\u201cWe want to say to Vini Jr he is not alone. We are in Brazil but there will be people in Spain and there is no space for racism, there is no more space for these people.  <\/p>\n<p>5. 01.00 Demonstrator Claudia Rodrigues holding a sign reading (Portuguese) \u201cEnough of racism\u201d <\/p>\n<p>6.  01.06 SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Claudia Rodrigues, President of Women Union from Sao Paulo state:<br \/>\n\u201cVini\u2019s (Vinicius Jr.) attitude to confront racism in Europe without caring about those who finance and support big athletes with their millionaire salaries is very important to our society.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>7. 01.21 Various of demonstrators with red flares chanting UPSOUND (Portuguese) \u201cFire on racists\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DURATION: 01.42<br \/>\nSTORYLINE:<br \/>\nBrazilian human rights groups and Black movements protested on Tuesday against Spanish authorities and soccer bodies of the European country amid a racist row involving Real Madrid star striker Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior.<\/p>\n<p>About 100 people gathered outside Spain&#8217;s consulate in metropolis Sao Paulo and chanted \u201cLa Liga is racist\u201d and \u201cend with racism in Spain and in Brazil\u201d for about one hour. <\/p>\n<p>They brought flares, banners and stickers that read \u201cVini Jr, I am with you.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>They also projected the words \u201cit is not soccer, it is racism\u201d on the consulate&#8217;s walls.<\/p>\n<p>Vin\u00edcius, who is Black, has been subjected to repeated racist taunts since he arrived in Spain five years ago. <\/p>\n<p>Since the Spanish league season began in September, he has suffered racist abuse by fans of at least five rival teams. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Spanish police arrested seven people accused of racially insulting the Real Madrid player. <\/p>\n<p>Three were detained in Valencia for alleged abuse against Vin\u00edcius in a Spanish league match on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Four were arrested in Madrid for allegedly hanging an effigy of the player off a highway bridge in January. <\/p>\n<p>AP Video shot by Marcelo Chello<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about AP Archive: http:\/\/www.aparchive.com\/HowWeWork<br \/>\nTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP_Archive<br \/>\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/APArchives \u200b\u200b<br \/>\nInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/APNews\/<\/p>\n<p>You can license this story through AP Archive: http:\/\/www.aparchive.com\/metadata\/youtube\/b8b4cee7f62c426f81ca13554a67f376<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RzvR7q85Kcc\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(24 May 2023) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP AND SNTV CLIENTS MAY USE ASSOCIATED PRESS &#8211; AP AND SNTV CLIENTS MAY USE Sao Paulo, Brazil &#8211; 23 May 2023 1. 00.08 Various&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":801,"featured_media":129240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-world-wide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/801"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}