Broader debate has been triggered on whether the country is inherently racist
Within hours of the game, Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, spoke out about it from the G7 summit in Japan, saying that “we cannot allow fascism and racism to take root inside football stadiums”.
The controversy around the racism experienced by Real Madrid forward Vinicius Jr has sparked a wider discussion on racism in football and in Spain in general. When the pundit Pipi Estrada asserted that “black people walk freely through the streets with nobody bothering them,” adding that “in Spain there is no racism”, his fellow guest Miguel Quintana called him “a lout” who was recycling the language of racists. It was hardly a sophisticated analysis but it meant that even lowbrow media were talking about the issue.
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