Euro Leagues: Vinicius' racism allegations - what next?
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Mark Chapman is joined by Guillem Balague, James Horncastle, Julien Laurens and Mina Rzouki.
The panel discuss the fallout from Real Madrid's 1-0 win over Benfica in the Champions League - with goalscorer Vinicius Junior accusing Benfica's Gianluca Prestianni of racist abuse.
FC Thun are on course for their first ever Swiss league title, manager Mauro Lustrinelli joins the show and they wrap up the rest of the week's Champions League action with big first-leg defeats for Italian giants Inter and Juventus.
TIMECODES 00:16 - Vinicius Jr accuses Benfica's Gianluca Prestianni of racist abuse 25:43 - FC Thun manager Mauro Lustrinelli on his side being top of the Swiss league 35:48 - Why are Italian clubs struggling in Europe?
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| 0:45.7 | Joining us this week, the athletics James Horncastle, ESPN Julien-Laure, and Mina Rizuki. |
| 0:51.5 | So plenty for us to get into, but we will start with what happened with Venisius Jr. |
| 0:57.7 | Reporting racist abuse from Jan Luca Prestiani. |
| 1:01.3 | Prestiani has denied that, |
| 1:04.9 | saying, I want to clarify that at no time |
| 1:07.5 | did I direct racist insults to Vincius Jr. |
| 1:10.3 | who regrettably misunderstood what |
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