24/05/2023
🚨🚨✍ NEW REAL MADRID STATEMENT:
Real Madrid C. F. would like to thank the numerous expressions of affection, solidarity and affection received from all over the world towards our player Vinicius Júnior.
The attacks of hatred and racism must be eradicated from our society forever and this is how personalities from all walks of life and from different national and international institutions have been pronounced after what happened yesterday at the Mestalla stadium.
Our club shows its gratitude to the highest authority of world football, FIFA President Gianni Infantino, who has said that matches where these hate crimes are committed should be stopped and suspended.
Also our thanks to the president of Brazil, Lula Da Silva, who asks that serious measures be taken to combat this problem and whose victim is, as he said, "a young man who triumphed in life and who is becoming one of the best soccer players in the world".
Likewise, his teammates have shown solidarity and support for Vinicius, both those of Real Madrid and those of the rest of the world's teams. Legends, players and coaches, some of them as significant on the international scene as Ronaldo Nazario, Mbappé, Rio Ferdinand, Neymar, Kaká, Jadon Sancho, Lineker, Roberto Carlos or Casemiro, among dozens and dozens of world soccer figures.
The unfortunate events that have gone around the world and embarrass our football, as they are reflected and denounced in the major international media. From the Washington Post or L´Équipe, to name just a few emblematic examples, they emphasize in a very forceful way the serious problem of Spanish football.
And finally, we are surprised by the statements of the president of the Spanish Football Federation, Luis Rubiales, because being as he is the head of Spanish football and the arbitration team, he has allowed no decisive action to have been taken, according to FIFA protocols, to avoid the situation that has been reached. The image of our football is severely damaged a
