Donato’s advice to Vinicius: “You need a guide and change your chip”

Donato, former player of Deportivo de la Coruña, Atlético de Madrid and the Spanish national teamI declare that Vinicius He is “a good kid, but he needs guidance and to change his chip” when asked about the Brazilian forward’s situation.

“For me he is a good kid, but he needs guidance and to change the chip of being in Europe. It has not reached this point and I believe that the more we talk, the more we will try to provoke,” said the former soccer player on the occasion of the meeting held by the Legends of the Spanish National Team this Tuesday in Madrid as Emilio Butragueño, ‘Pirri’ or Abel Resino.

The former midfielder, that made it clear “Spain is not a racist country, “but there is racism, but like there is in Brazil, in the United States and everywhere,” he stressed that Vinicius must try to “do everything possible to forget everything that happens on the field.”

“I am against racism, but the player has to try to do everything possible to forget everything that is happening on the field, be careful with the gestures made because it provokes a bad reaction from the fans, ” he says. Donato, who defined the situation as “provocation and not racism” because other Madrid players “do not receive the same.”

Donato explained when he himself received racist insults during his playing days. “When I played against Deportivo with Atlético de Madrid, and I caught the ball and They sang uh-uh-uh to me and every time I went for the ball the volume got louder and I laughed. I have experienced all this and I have never worried in my life and I tried, they motivated me even more, to play more and show that in football you can keep quiet,” admitted the former football player who emphasized which is now “more controversial. .”

“I see it evolving into more controversy and problems because Now, the games have stopped and in my time it was not done for calling a player black”, said the Rio de Janeiro-born man who emphasized that this is what has changed.

“For me what has changed is that now, a player is offended and the game is stopped and I think ‘for the love of God.’ If that’s what they call me, next time I’ll give it a ‘trip’; but now it’s not like that,” said Donato, who tried to find a solution to the problem and gave advice to Vinicius.

“At the moment we are trying to see how this can be resolved but The more they talked and the more Vinicus was seen crying, the more they would provoke and I don’t think it will solve it. “I gave him some advice: Jesus Christ suffered all the shame and he said: father, forgive them, because they do not know what they do, so Vinicius must forgive people and forget this issue, ” he concluded.