Madrid (AFP)

"You really have to have zero tolerance for that": after the allegations of racist insults against Mouctar Diakhaby and the interruption of the La Liga meeting on Sunday between Cadiz and Valencia, Real Madrid coach Zinédine Zidane on Monday described these incidents as "serious".

"These are things that are serious. I was not on the pitch so I don't know exactly what happened. But I'm just saying, and that's my feeling, that about racism, you really have to have zero tolerance, "said the French coach at a press conference before Real's Champions League quarter-final against Liverpool on Tuesday evening.

"Because we don't want to. And not just on a word that is said. We have to fight it at all levels. What makes our beauty is our diversity, it's the difference, it 'this is what is beautiful in what we live, "Zizou" said.

Monday morning in training, the players and members of the staff of Valencia gathered behind the French defender Mouctar Diakhaby, right hand straight ahead, palm spread, to express their opposition to racism, we have seen on images broadcast by the club.

"LaLiga condemns racism in all its forms," ​​LaLiga told AFP, recalling that it "takes any accusation of racism seriously".

On Sunday evening, the Valencia players briefly left the pitch during their game in Cadiz, with the Valencian club claiming that their French defender Mouctar Diakhaby was the target of racist insults by an opponent.

"All our support for Diakhaby. NO TO RACISM. The player, who received a racist insult, asked his teammates to return to the pitch to fight. ALL WITH YOU, MOUCTAR", wrote the Valence CF in the stride, on Twitter.

Around the 31st minute of play, when the score was 1-1, Diakhaby stopped playing to attack Spanish player from Cádiz, Juan Cala.

The two men started shouting at each other, then Diakhaby told the referee that he had been the victim of a racist insult, which appears on the referee's report.

Diakhaby then left the pitch, followed by all his teammates ... who then returned to finish the game under the threat of having the match lost.

Diakhaby, he watched the end of the match from the stands.

The Cádiz club announced on Twitter on Monday morning that their player Juan Cala will give a press conference on Tuesday at the end of the training session

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