A banana was thrown towards Sport’s reserve bench during a women’s Brazilian Championship game on Monday (31). The CBF (Brazilian Football Confederation) called for punishment from the international three games with closed gates outside Porto Alegre, until the definitive judgment of the possible racist act.
By note, Internacional says it has identified the person responsible for the throw.
Banana’s throw took place during the 2-2 draw between the two teams in a game held at Sesc Campestre in Porto Alegre for the third round of the tournament. The game was in the second half when the banana was thrown in the field.
“The CBF reports that it immediately sent all documentation to the Attorney General of the STJD (Superior Court of Sports Justice) demanding strict investigation of the facts. The entity also requested preventive punishment to the gaucho club, if the racist aggression is confirmed. In the request to open the inquiry, the CBF requested that the Internacional to fulfill three closed gates outside the capital of Rio Grande do Sul Question, “says the CBF.
TV Brasil, which broadcast the game, recorded the moment when the fourth referee Andressa Hartmann collected the piece of banana.
Sport has repudiated “the cowardly and racist attitude of a Sport Club International fan”. “This disgusting act is a clear manifestation of racism and intolerance, and cannot be unpunished. The Sport Club do Recife does not tolerate any form of discrimination or prejudice and requires the exemplary punishment of the responsible.”
The Pernambuco club also reported that “the club’s women’s football director, Alessandro Rodrigues, went to the police station to register a police report and awaits the consequences of the case, including the liability of the involved.”
The International has expressed “its repudiation vehemently to any discriminatory act and reaffirms its non -negotiable commitment in the fight against all forms of prejudice.”
Ivandro Morbach, vice president of Inter’s Management Council, said in an interview with RBS TV that a club base player was responsible for playing the banana. Her contract was terminated.
“We sought the images, we found the fact. Unfortunately there was a gesture that came from a newly arrived athlete to the international Sport Club. Immediately, last night the athlete has already been communicated from his dismissal, this morning was made the termination of the contract, was a contract still of training. A response at the time of the club that does not tolera, does not normalize any episode that hurts the death club values Example, any discriminatory act, “he said.
For researcher Marcelo Tonini, the banana throw is directly associated with the practice of racism. “If this is not considered a racist act, we no longer know what it is,” says the researcher of the Brazilian Football Museum Brazilian Football Reference Center.
“Racism is complex and it doesn’t just happen among fans, players and athletes, it can happen among the most varied sports actors, such as journalists, leaders and referees,” says Tonini, who has experiences in sports sociology and ethnic-racial relations.
The researcher of the Football Museum also states that it takes active awareness of the clubs with the athletes. “Clubs have social responsibility, not just the formation of the athlete. It is necessary to think about the formation of the citizen. Racial literacy is a need to reduce these cases,” he says.
Racial literacy, he says, must be permanent in sports teams. “It takes a reeducation program. The athlete is banned from the team, but I ask if this solves the problem of racism and makes the person learn from the mistake he made. A program of reeducation, participation in social and anti -racist actions would no longer be appropriate?”
