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Santander League: Iaki Williams will leave the field if racist insults are repeated | LaLiga Santander 2019

Tuesday,
3
March
2020

00:05

The Athletic striker did not tolerate a new episode like the one I lived in Cornell on January 25.

Williams finishes off Ter Stegen in Athletic-Bara.

EFE

Iaki Williams He is not willing to consent to more racist insults. The Athletic striker has assured that if an episode similar to the one he lived in the RCDE Stadium was repeated, he and his teammates will leave the field. And he has said that he will give “equal” if they give them the game for lost, since the action will mean “a little shot against racism”.

“I know that my companions would have left the field with me because we have talked about it. If it happened, we would leave the field; if they give us the game for lost, it will give us exactly the same, because it will be a little bit against racism,” he said in a preview of the interview in the program Valdano Universe of Movistar + that will be broadcast in full this Tuesday.

In addition, he thanked the samples of cario received by many fans, as well as the ovation he received in the Heliodoro Rodrguez Lpez in the Copa del Rey duel after suffering the insults in Cornell-El Prat. “I hope it doesn't happen again, but If it is repeated I will have the support of many people, how it happened to me in Tenerife or how a thousand messages rained on social networks, “he said.

On January 25, Williams, the son of Ghanaian parents, reported that he had received racist insults from the stands of the RCDE Stadium during the game that the Basque team played against RCD Espanyol (1-1). The player was replaced by Ral Garca in the 69th minute, and that was when he heard the racist insults and asked his partner Iker Muniain to communicate it to the Murcian collegiate Jos Mara Snchez Martnez. However, the game continued.

The only game suspended for insults in the Spanish league was Rayo Vallecano-Albacete on day 20 of this season in Second, when referee Jos Antonio Lpez Toca decided not to play the second part in Vallecas for the ” Nazi fucking “to the Ukrainian player of the visiting team Roman Zozulia.

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