The president of FIFA, Gianni Infantinoshowed his solidarity with the Brazilian forward of real Madrid, Vinicius Juniorand all the players who suffer racist abuse and remember that each organization is responsible for the incidents that happen in their competitions, as well as the FIFA protocol on them.
“All solidarity with Vinicius and all who suffer racist abuse. It is clear that in the system we have, every organizer is responsible for the incidents that happen in their competitions,” he said.
In the press conference after his re-election as president until 2027 at the FIFA Congress in Kigali, Infantino recalled that in FIFA competitions “referees have the possibility and obligation to stop matches if there are racist insults”, which there is a three-step mechanism.
According to this, the party stopped for a while; if the insults are repeated, the referee stops the match, the players leave the field and the ‘speaker’ warns that if the insults continue the match will be suspended; and the third step establishes that if there are more insults the game is suspended and three points are awarded to the other team.
“Those are the rules that should be increased in every country. Sometimes theory is easier than practice, we understand it and what we should do is education and education. As FIFA We are making social media monitoring available to players to cut down all insulting and negative messages. It worked very well in the World Cup and this is a step,” he added.
Source: La Verdad
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