It has become a universal symbol of the fight against racism and has reached the fields of Gipuzkoa. The first-year cadet players of the CD. Arrupe Chaminade S.A.N.S.E. decided to get on their knees in the grass of Zubieta before his match against the Real
Society last Saturday in protest of the racist insults received three days before by one of his soccer players, 15 years old, in the field of the Sporting
from
Herrera. The kids of the txuri urdin team, in the children's category although they play in a higher category, and their technicians decided to support the initiative and made the same gesture of condemnation. Those responsible for S.A.N.S.E. have denounced the events this morning through their social networks and the iconic image of the weekend could be seen live on Saturday morning because the Real He offered the meeting live on his YouTube channel.
A group of young people present shouted at the player of the S.A.N.S.E. a series of unfortunate expressions related to his origin: “It was not at a specific moment, they did it in various phases of the match, they laughed at him, made fun of him and insulted him,” says the coordinator of the San Sebastian team in MD Ryan
Value. “It was outrageous,” he sums up.
Affected, but whole
The victim heard the expletives perfectly, but held on and continued on the field of play: “He played normally, naturally. It affected him, but it did not collapse, “he says. Value. The coordinator of the S.A.N.S.E. exempts the local club, the Sporting de Herrera, of responsibility for what happened, among other things for their effort to clarify the facts: “We have spoken with them this morning, they condemn what happened, they support us and they will try to find out where the insults came from to identify the culprits and take measures ”, says the head of SANSE It is known that those who uttered the insults are young people of the same age or one year older.
Kneeling down before a game or sporting event became a universal sign of rejection of racist behavior and of mourning for the death of the American George
Floyd, suffocated by the continuous pressure exerted by the knee of a policeman in Minneapolis, in the United States. Among the victims of this type of execrable behavior is the Real player Alexander Isak, who received insults during the match between Romania and Sweden by the local fans on November 16, 2019. The referee momentarily stopped this qualifying match to Euro 2020, but in the end it could be finished.