Troy Deeney, Birmingham City forward, has revealed that has received between 30 and 40 weekly messages with racist insults and he has urged the rest of the footballers to denounce this series of behaviors.
“A photo of me, my wife or my children, people have no limit to hate”, Deeney, a former Watford player, said in an interview with Sky Sports. “I understand that there are people who like me and who don't. You can talk about my football all you want, but what I don't understand is why you have to talk about my skin color or try to miss me for being black” .
“There is like a boy inside me (when I receive these messages), who wants to break everything, and there is another part of me that just gets sad. I imagine it's age and being a father. people who can go online and say what they want without repercussions. “
“If I responded in the same way that I am insulted, I would be on television all the time, I would be everywhere, I would have hundreds of punishments, but nothing happens to them”, Deeney said.
The player urged that footballers denounce this type of insults, which have intensified on social networks in recent months, to prevent them from continuing to occur and that social media platforms allow them.
“You have to break down barriers and understand that talking about it, with the police or with your agent, does not mean that you are weak, it only means that you can prevent another person from going through the same suffering that you are going through.”