World U20: a Brazilian participant sufferer of racist insults on social networks

A new case of racism in football. The Brazilian Federation (CBF) denounced on Wednesday racist insults having centered one among its players on social networks, at some stage in the Under-20 World Cup in Argentina, including that it'd transmit the evidence to justice and to Fifa.

On the pitch, Brazil gained their ticket to the zone-finals of the occasion inside the nighttime via beating Tunisia 4-1 at the Diego Maradona stadium in La Plata, close to Buenos Aires. Its defender Robert Renan became however excluded and, jeered by using the especially Argentine public, answered by showing the five arms of the hand, in an allusion to the range of World Cups won via the Seleçao. Argentina, with whom the carrying rivalry is strong, has won most effective 3.

 

Subsequently, he “changed into the victim of racist assaults” on social networks, the CBF said in a assertion. The perpetrators of these insults were “identified” and the proof might be sent to the Argentine justice as well as to the International Federation (Fifa), followed by way of a request for sanctions, she added.

If the CBF did now not specify in its press release the insults suffered by means of Robert Renan, the 19-12 months-old participant published screenshots on his Instagram account containing offensive messages or maybe monkey emojis.

 

Last month, the Brazilian Federation strongly denounced the racist insults that Real Madrid striker Vinicius Jr changed into subjected to in the course of a healthy inside the Spanish championship in Valencia, an incident which aroused strong disapproval within the world.

Following this controversy, the Spanish authorities and the usa’s football government promised lively motion to combat against racism.