MADRID, 23 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Rayo Vallecano coach, Andoni Iraola, made it clear that “it is evident that there is racism” in Spanish football after what happened last Sunday at Mestalla with Vinícius Jr, whose absence this Wednesday in the duel against Real Madrid “is the least important” in reference to everything he has had to experience.
“I think it’s clear that there’s racism because it’s not the first time it’s happened, I don’t know if it’s more and more, but at least we’ve seen it several times this season. I think it’s always been insulted, but I don’t think the insults are all the same and I think there are issues with which you have to be very strict,” warned Iraola this Tuesday at a press conference prior to his visit to the Santiago Bernabéu.
For this reason, he agrees to “stop the games to stop this.” “It is evident that measures must be taken because it is something that must be eradicated and so far with what has been done it is seen that it is not enough. And I think that we must go more excessively when it comes to cutting this type of thing because we are seeing, that I am not saying that it is a great majority, but that there are cases and they must be punished and measures must be taken because it is the only way to put an end to this,” he added.
The former player has experienced these situations since he is “aware”. “All the times that I have entered a football stadium in my life there has always been someone who has insulted. They will be a minority, but they exist and we cannot blindfold them. It is clear that with what has been done so far, it has not been enough,” he reiterated.
The man from Usurbil is clear that Vinícius “is a world elite player, absolutely unbalancing”. “And now he has also added numbers, he has added definition and he is a player that we are not going to discover,” he stressed, without giving more importance to his absence because he will play another that “will not be very far” from the level of the. “But speaking of this topic, that is the least important thing,” he pointed out.
“Vinícius is not to blame in the sense that if a guy insults him like this, the fault is evident who has it. He has now become a player, I don’t know if he is top 3, top 5 in the world and everything that happens to him now It can also have more repercussion”, added the Basque coach, who considered it positive that the Brazilian “made it clearly visible”.
Regarding the visit to the Bernabéu, Iraola stressed that they should worry about themselves and not be obsessed with qualifying for Europe. “I also think that a game of this type, in a scenario like the one we have, many times in the face of the player you forget a bit about the classification,” he said.
“Besides, Real Madrid is coming off two defeats, so you have to give your limit or else you’re going to be exposed, but in these scenarios up to now we haven’t behaved badly and I trust that we’ll also put on a good face”, declared the Guipuzcoan.
The Rayo Vallecano coach was asked about having already beaten the Madrid team and FC Barcelona this year. “We are aware that these are things that usually happen from time to time and that they are very difficult and that some circumstances have to occur, but above all we have to give ourselves the option and for that we have to touch our limit and then have that ‘little point’ ‘Fortunately, that they do not have their best day either and lead them to difficulties, that these doubts enter a little, but for that you have to do many things, “he explained.
“I think that the fact that they have lost the last two games makes them more dangerous. They don’t need practically anything to punish you and score a goal, but for them to worry too, that’s what we try against these types of teams, to do the two-way party,” he said.
Iraola confirmed that “surely there will be some news” regarding the last eleven and celebrated that Raúl de Tomás’s line “is clearly ascending”, while he does not hide that it has been “away from home” where they have escaped being higher up in the second round. “In the first we did very good numbers away from home, in the second it is costing us much more,” admitted the franjirrojo coach, who assured that “there is no news” about his future at the club.