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Lack of intestinal fortitude
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Lack of intestinal fortitude


May 28, 2023, 10:49 AM

Give me a break. If you are a super star on a top team, you have to figure out how to ignore this cr@p. It's almost like the powers that be want this to happen so they can all virtue signal how horrible it is.

I mean 10 whole times over only two years someone said something mean to him. Lordy.

Vinícius has been subjected to racist abuse from the stands on 10 occasions during La Liga matches over the past two seasons, and seven people were arrested on Tuesday in relation to incidents of racist abuse directed at the Madrid star this season.



https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/25/football/javier-tebas-racist-slur-laliga-vinicius-spt-intl/index.html


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Re: Lack of intestinal fortitude


May 28, 2023, 10:51 AM

Ha! Hilarious fainting goat gif did not play.

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Just get used to the racism you #######.***


May 28, 2023, 11:06 AM



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Re: Lack of intestinal fortitude


May 28, 2023, 4:27 PM

As an actual soccer fan, I can tell you this kind of crap has been escalating for awhile now in Europe. There's groups of what are called "Ultras" in many fan bases that increasingly have gotten racist to an extent that would never play here in the USA. (Well, hopefully. There's some folks here on this very thread who make me wonder about that.)

Anyhow, among other things these Ultras like to hoot like monkeys at guys like Vinicius Junior - who is probably the frontrunner for the 2023 Ballon d'Or, the award given to the best soccer player in the world - and throw bananas at him. Hence the arrests.

Are you suggesting Vinicius needs to just man up and ignore all that...including, you know, the bananas being chucked at him?

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Not to nitpick (ok, maybe to nitpick a little),


May 28, 2023, 5:15 PM

While this is obviously deplorable, what evidence is there that it’s “escalating”? I’m a non-soccer fan and I can still remember seeing stories like this about Euro soccer most of my adult life.

This is just one of many articles I saw in a quick look for futbol Europa regarding racism in the 70’s - 90’s. Not excusing it but there’s a big difference in it escalating and it persisting.

https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/black-history-month-racism-in-football/

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Re: Not to nitpick (ok, maybe to nitpick a little),


May 28, 2023, 5:32 PM

The right term might be "re-escalating". America ain't perfect - as we all well know, though our take on what ails us often differs - but we at least don't tolerate crap like that.

The various Ultra were, well, I dunno if they ever got quiet, but they certainly got curtailed in the 2000's and most of the 2010's. Teams were making a real effort to build family atmospheres and tamp the crazy down. You assuredly did not see this kind of crap except in maybe the fringe Eastern Euro leagues, Croatia and whatnot. Heck, even the Russian league started buying Brazilian players during that stretch, and they weren't subjected to this kind of stuff. (You've probably seen those viral videos of Russian Ultras beating the crap out of each other in the woods. If you haven't, give it a gander. Like wow, man.)

Now it seems like it's everywhere in Europe and getting worse. I can't personally remember a time when you'd hear about the kind of crap in my first 20+ years watching soccer...now you seem to see it every week.

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