Rodrygo will goReal Madrid forward, has received racist insults on his social networks in recent days after fighting with Lionel Messiin the match between Brazil and Argentina on Tuesday at the Maracaná.
In the winger’s last publication, dated November 11, dozens of users blamed him for calling Argentina players “cowards” for leaving the field after the incidents recorded in the stadium stood between of fans of both teams.
Among those dozens of comments, there were some with racist undertones that included monkey and banana emoticons.
Rodrygo denounced what happened this Thursday: “Racists are always on the lookout. My social networks were attacked with offenses and all kinds of absurdities.”
“If we don’t do what they want, if we don’t act the way they think we should, if we wear something that bothers them, if we don’t bow our heads when they attack us, if we occupy spaces that. they believe that only they, the racists come in. action with his criminal behavior,” said the Brazilian international.
The fight in between Brazil and Argentinawhich coincided with the sixth day of the South American qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup, started almost half an hour late due to a fight between two fans, which forced the police to intervene.
The Albiceleste players went to the locker room and only returned to the Maracaná pitch seventeen minutes later, when the situation was under control.
At that moment when Rodrygo and Messi They clashed in which, according to Argentine radio station TyC Sports, the Brazilian called Argentine soccer players “cowards”.
According to the aforementioned media, the number 10 shirt, which grabbed the neck of the former Santos player, replied that they were “world champions” and told him to “shut his mouth.”
Argentina won 0-1 in Brazil’s first defeat at home in a World Cup qualifying round.
Source: La Verdad
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