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Updated Monday, April 1, 2024-22:58
THE TESTIMONY that EL MUNDO publishes today should stir consciences and bring about a change in football and in Spanish society: "Fucking black, fucking black." The Senegalese goalkeeper
Cheikh Sarr
was expelled on Saturday from the match his team, Rayo Majadahonda, was playing in Sestao, after confronting the spectators after losing his temper after having to continuously endure very serious racist insults. His colleagues then chose to retire: it is the first time that has happened
something like that in Spain.
"I wanted to ask him why he treated me like that, whether or not he had a family and could understand me," he tells this newspaper. His words show a feeling of humiliation and injustice that should shame those who carry out these intolerable behaviors and force the Federation to adopt exemplary measures that make it clear that these behaviors deserve the greatest repudiation and will be relentlessly pursued. To begin with, no one in their right mind would understand that Sarr was sanctioned or that Rayo was denied the right to end the contest on equal terms. The opposite would imply a lack of compassion towards that unbearable suffering that would inflict an irreparable moral damage on the whole of Spanish football. LaLiga must also react. Due to his humility, Sarr has perhaps become a symbol, but the lack of respect towards Vinicius or Sánchez Flores reveals a social problem to which one cannot close one's eyes.
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