Slot offers Vinicius support, saying football ‘must do more’ against racism
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Liverpool manager Arne Slot speaks out about racism in football and says the sport must do more to prevent future incidents.
Liverpool manager Arne Slot says more needs to be done to avoid racism in football following allegations by Real Madrid’s Brazilian forward Vinicius Junior that he was subjected to racist abuse from Benfica’s Argentinian winger Gianluca Prestianni.
Real’s 1-0 Champions League playoff first-leg win at Benfica on Tuesday was overshadowed by Vinicius accusing Prestianni of directing a racist slur at him, a charge denied by the Portuguese club, the player and their manager, Jose Mourinho.
European football’s governing body, UEFA, said it was reviewing the incident, which led to the game being halted for 11 minutes under FIFA’s antiracism protocol.
“In general, you can never do enough, you can always do more to make sure this [racism in football] never happens again,” Slot told reporters ahead of Liverpool’s Premier League visit to relegation-threatened Nottingham Forest on Sunday.
“We have to try as a football community to do more than society does. That’s maybe not so difficult, by the way. Protocol was followed in the game; that’s the first step,” he said on Thursday.
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