Reina blames Vini Jr in case of racism

The racism suffered by vini jr in the match between Valence It is Real Madrid it still wasn’t enough for some Spanish players to understand the subject. Ex-Barcelona, ​​Liverpool, Milan and Bayern Munich, reigns opened the game about what happened to the Brazilian star in an interview for the newspaper “Brand“. The goalkeeper condemned the racist acts, but placed a portion of the blame on the merengue player.

“First, any racist behavior must be stopped. So I don’t believe that there is racism in every stadium in Spain or that an entire stadium is racist. There are the fools who are hard to contain forever. What you need to do is identify them and never enter a stadium again. Those four, eight or a thousand who called Vinícius a ‘monkey’ must be condemned. It’s sad that this happens“, began. However, Reina assumed that Vini Jr is to blame for suffering from this type of attitude.

“That said, I see that sometimes it’s not just racism, it’s not that a fan is racist or not, but that they took it out on a certain player, because he can talk too much at a certain moment… It’s happened to all of us, including me. As a general reflection, the less you provoke the stands, the less you provoke rivals and the less you protest with the referee, the more respect you will get from everyone“, continued.

Reina and Vini Jr have already had some problems in matches between Villarreal and Real Madrid, and the goalkeeper understands that the attacker is to blame due to his posture on the pitch. In the view of the 40-year-old player, the Brazilian needs to “mature” even admitting that the ace is one of the best players in the world.

“My humble position, even if it’s old, I say to dedicate yourself more to playing, to focus more on that, on being a great footballer. He’s fast, unbalanced, already defining the finish line well… He’s becoming one of the best in the world. But I think he should also mature in behavior, in having more respect for rivals, in understanding some unwritten football values ​​or codes. This would improve his performance. It can’t be that every away game is a war for him“, continued.

Furthermore, he revealed that he had conversations with some Real Madrid players about Vinícius Jr and his behavior on the pitch. Once again, the Villarreal goalkeeper condemned racism, but did not exempt the Brazilian striker from suffering from this type of crime due to his posture within the four lines.

“I told Nacho and Carvajal when we met at the Copa. The fact that Vinícius behaves like that sometimes impacts the team as a whole. If he were my partner, I would speak, as I speak here, to some young man who has not been right at some point. It is a problem of values ​​and education, on everyone’s part. It doesn’t work for me that the whole world is against me because they are racist. And, I insist, I condemn any type of racism or racist insinuation“, he explained.

Aside from putting Vini Jr among the culprits for suffering racism in Spanish football, Reina suggested changes and also made it clear that the country is not racist. On the contrary, this group of criminals are made up of a small group of people and do not deserve relevance.

“There is racism in England, France, Italy… And we must fight against it actively. Exclude these people from football. Because there are ‘fans’ in many fields, that’s why exemplary sanctions must be applied: closing stadiums, interrupting matches. That seems perfect to me, but I also think that not everything is racism. Spain is not racist, or at least not more racist than other countries, although there are racist attitudes from some fools“, finished.