Akapo: “We must help those who suffer a racist episode”

The Equatoguinean player of the Cádiz Carlos Akapo regretted that racist incidents occur in the twenty-first century and assured that for him “football are values” and it is necessary to “help the one who suffers an episode” of this type.

“For me, football is values ​​and as colleagues we are, we must help those who suffer from a racist episode,” he said. Akapo in a talk addressed to his teammates from the subsidiary of the Cádizrecorded by the AFE Foundation (Association of Spanish Soccer Players) on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discriminationwhich takes place this Monday.

Akapo was recently the target of racist insults and gestures at his team’s league match in Granada by the public, when he was going to the bench after being replaced and passed by a background of the stadium.

A spectator, who was identified by the Granada and he is not a member of the club, as announced by him, he made a racist gesture in which he imitated the movement of a monkey, an attitude that was captured by television cameras and that the footballer recriminated the fan.

“These are situations that happen every day and not just on a soccer field. It can happen in a high school, on the street. I understand the anger and frustration that these things happen so often,” he said. Akapo.

For the winger, “in the twenty-first century, these are things that should not continue to happen” and he asked his teammates from the subsidiary to “report” if they suffer a situation of this type and handle it “in the best possible way”.