Universitario technician Jorge Fossati compared the celebration of a Corinthians youth with a racist gesture made by his physical trainer in a press conference
The confrontation between Corinthians It is University for the Copa Sudamericana playoffs ended with much controversy and provocation. At the end of the game in Peru, coach Jorge Fossati criticized the young man’s goal celebration Ryanstill comparing it with the racist gesture made by the club’s physical trainer, Sebastian Vargas.
“Now here, again, nothing happened by (Ryan’s) gesture of showing his shirt. Is that a laugh in the face or what? The kid is what, 12 years old? But there, for a gesture, he has a physical trainer arrested for seven days. Here you have to apologize because, poor thing, he is a young man“, put the Uruguayan coach.
Before that, fossati he also stated that the Corinthians fans had been calling his work partner “indian” during the first leg. According to him, this is also a racist term, but one that has not been spoken since then, only putting Sebastian’s alleged mistake into public knowledge.
“In the game there, they said “Indian” to the bench throughout the game. As far as I know, indio is intended to be an offensive or racist word. This was not mentioned there, it seems that no one found out about it, only one side was heard“, complained the coach of the Peruvian team, in a press conference after the end of the confrontation.
In any case, Universitario is eliminated from the Sul-Americana, while Corinthians advances to face Newell’s Old Boys in the round of 16. On the other side, Sebastian Vargas remains in preventive custody in Brazil, awaiting the next steps of his process.
Source: sportbuzz
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