{"id":508639,"date":"2026-02-17T18:34:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=508639"},"modified":"2026-02-17T18:34:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:34:27","slug":"vini-jr-reports-racist-abuse-during-real-madrids-1-0-win-vs-benfica","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/vini-jr-reports-racist-abuse-during-real-madrids-1-0-win-vs-benfica\/","title":{"rendered":"Vini Jr reports racist abuse during Real Madrid\u2019s 1-0 win vs. Benfica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Blancos\u2019 UCL playoff 1<sup>st<\/sup> leg victory at Benfica was paused for 10 minutes today, after Vini Jr. accused an Eagles player of racially abusing him.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian forward netted the winning goal in the match in the 50<sup>th<\/sup> minute in Portugal, but then approached official Francois Letexier, who made the &#8216;arms-crossed&#8217; gesture indicating that an accusation of racist abuse had been made.<\/p>\n<p>The game at the Estadio da Luz was then put on hold, as Vin\u00edcius spoke with different players, coaches, including his opponent\u2019s manager, Jose Mourinho.<\/p>\n<p>Vini was also shown a yellow card after his goal, after he celebrated with a dance by the corner flag, and was then confronted by several opposition footballers.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles\u2019 Argentine player, Gianluca Prestianni, was complaining to the Brazilian while covering his mouth with his jersey, before Vinicius suddenly pointed to him and ran toward the referee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the teammates that were close, they heard something racist,\u201d Los Blancos midfielder Federico Valverde revealed after the end of the match. \u201cIt is ugly that this is still happening and that with all those cameras it wasn\u2019t recorded.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Real Madrid have the lead their dominance has deserved.<\/p>\n<p>Vinicius Junior cut inside before unleashing a phenomenal strike that Anatoliy Trubin could do nothing about.<\/p>\n<p>After being shown a yellow card for his celebration, Vinicius Jr appeared to allege reports of racist abuse \u2014\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pwURamA6Kt\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/pwURamA6Kt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Athletic | Football (@TheAthleticFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthleticFC\/status\/2023871619291050403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 17, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Blancos\u2019 UCL playoff 1st leg victory at Benfica was paused for 10 minutes today, after Vini Jr. accused an Eagles player of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":508640,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17375,21159],"news_category":[137,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[25864,21160],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Brazilian superstar claimed he suffered racism during the match.","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\/508639"}],"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=508639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508641,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508639\/revisions\/508641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508639"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=508639"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=508639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}