{"id":481078,"date":"2024-03-26T13:53:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T17:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=481078"},"modified":"2024-03-26T13:53:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T17:53:53","slug":"vini-jr-to-captain-brazil-in-spain-anti-racism-match","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/vini-jr-to-captain-brazil-in-spain-anti-racism-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Vini Jr to captain Brazil in Spain anti-racism match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior will captain Brazil for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time in today\u2019s international friendly vs. Spain, which was organized by the 2 country&#8217;s federations in response to racism suffered by the Los Blancos superstar.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Vinicius Junior will captain Brazil when they play Spain later this evening.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old broke down in tears at an emotional press conference on Monday after saying the racist abuse directed at him is getting worse.<\/p>\n<p>More from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarioCortegana?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MarioCortegana<\/a> \u2b07\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nxy7DCOztc\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/nxy7DCOztc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Athletic | Football (@TheAthleticFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthleticFC\/status\/1772618786312458336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As part of the procedure, footballers will pose for the national anthems wearing a black shirt with the slogan: &#8220;One skin, one identity&#8221; written in 3 languages.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian forward broke down in tears during a press conference yesterday when discussing the racist abuse he has sustained in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being on the pitch is important, but the fight versus racism is even more important,&#8221; Vini Jr. shared with the reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only thing I want is to play football and for everyone to have a normal life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Repeated racist abuse versus the Real Madrid Brazilian superstar has started a heated debate in Spain about tolerance against racists.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities in Spain claimed that they would do everything to combat any type of discrimination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior will captain Brazil for the 1st time in today\u2019s international friendly vs. Spain, which was organized by the 2 country&#8217;s federations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":481079,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16933,16913,21159],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[19951,18442,21160],"acf":{"announce":"Vinicius will be the captain of his country in the upcoming game.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481081,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481078\/revisions\/481081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481078"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=481078"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=481078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}