The Santiago Bernabéu has turned to Vinicius Júnior since the preview of Spain-Brazil, a match staged a year ago after the racist insults the Real Madrid forward received in Valencia at the end of last May. From that point, Luís Rubiales, then president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and his Brazilian counterpart, Ednaldo Rodrigues, moved quickly to shut it down. They did this through two former footballers, the current sports director of the RFEF, Albert Luque, and his former teammate at Deportivo de la Coruña, Mauro Silva, who is currently vice president of the Paulista Football Federation and wants to pursue a diplomatic career in inside of Brazilian football. The former Depor player intervened to send the proposal to Brazilian officials and quickly closed the deal.
“This is a cry for equality and tolerance. “A complaint against racism,” underlined one of the RFEF’s campaigns this week to promote the match in a Bernabéu that was not completely full, but seemed very well suited to the two teams facing each other. A match that, despite the good reason, should be noted that in any case is useful. From the Federation it is thought that about 5 million euros will be deposited, of which they will have about 2 clean. In fact, it cost the RFEF 3 million, as federative sources explained to MD: One million was charged by Real Madrid to give them the field and two more went to the CBF, which did not come for free in the fight against racism. .
Both teams jumped onto the pitch under the motto of the match. “One skin”, in Spanish and “Uma só pele, uma só indentidade”, in Portuguese (One skin, one identity). A phrase that was also read on the tarp carried by the Spanish refugee team before the match, while the anthems played. Additionally, Brazil took to the field wearing a special sweatshirt. Completely black and with the same slogan, which was also worn on the bus, all black, that brought them to the Santiago Bernabéu. During the clash they also had to wear commemorative bracelets with the same slogan, but they stayed in the locker room.
The focus, of course, is on Vinicius Júnior, who was undoubtedly the main protagonist both in the preview, when he cried, and in his clash against Spain. It will also go into the documentary that Netflix is recording. Undoubtedly, from this match they got the best photos to sell their product.
Source: La Verdad
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