The Rise of Vinicius Jr & Spanish Football's Problem With Racism
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Mark Chapman is joined by The Athletic's Dermot Corrigan & Mario Cortegana to discuss the rise of Real Madrid's Brazilian superstar Vinicius Jr and the recent spate of racist incidents he has had to endure.
Real Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti believes Spanish football has a racism problem — is he right ? and if so what are La Liga and Real Madrid doing about it?
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:03.1 | So the Royal Madrid boss, Carlo Ancelotti, |
| 0:05.1 | believes that Spanish football has a racism problem |
| 0:08.2 | after the abuse his star player, |
| 0:10.1 | Venetius Jr, has been targeted with in recent weeks. |
| 0:13.5 | Is Ancelotti right? |
| 0:15.0 | And if so, what are La Liga and Real Madrid doing about it? |
| 0:18.1 | I'm Mark Chapman. |
| 0:18.9 | This is the Athletic Football podcast. |
| 0:33.3 | It's a lot of Fowlerdy. |
| 0:35.5 | Quite an effective passage of play that from Real Madrid. |
| 0:38.5 | Valverdi then drives it in and they go ahead. |
| 0:42.0 | Vinicious Junior. |
| 0:46.8 | The stand to France erupts with white delight. |
| 0:50.7 | And Venetius Jr. fires Real Madrid driven front to the Champions League final. |
| 0:55.8 | So for this one, we're joined by the athletics, Dermott Corrigan and Maria Kutahana. |
| 1:00.5 | Dermott, start with you about where Venetius Jr. is now in the pantheon of La Liga players. |
| 1:08.2 | He's right up there as one of the best La Liga players, one of the most important. |
| 1:11.4 | Of the new generation of stars, I guess, |
| 1:13.5 | after Cristiano and Messi had left, |
| 1:16.1 | then you have people like Modrich and Cruz and Benzima |
| 1:19.1 | at Madrid and Biscuettes, |
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