Perhaps many soccer fans had already lost the track to
Álvaro González
.
Often happens.
When a player like him, with an important career in the elite but no international cache, leaves LaLiga, he automatically disappears from the media radar.
Today, however, anyone knows that the Cantabrian now plays for Olympique de Marseille.
The bad thing for him is that they do not know it because of his good performance at the Vélodrome, but because of a much more murky matter: the accusations of racism by
Neymar
, who denounces that the Spaniard called him a "monkey son of a bitch."
For those who, despite having played seven seasons in the First Division, do not remember him, it should be noted that Álvaro is a center-back trained in the lower categories of Racing.
From the Cantabrian club, after his last relegation to Second in 2012, he made the leap to Zaragoza, with which he also dropped, playing one year in the silver category.
From there, he went to Espanyol in 2014 and Villarreal in 2016. The last season he already played on loan to Marseille, who in May exercised the purchase option he had on him to keep him in property.
He was also one of the players who, under
Julen Lopetegui
, won the European Under-21 Championship in 2013 with the Spanish team.
Let's go back to the present.
The conflict between Álvaro and Neymar began on the lawn in the French classic and has been transferred to social networks, in which the Spanish has reacted to the tsunami with a photo in which he is seen surrounded by colleagues of African, Maghreb and Asian: "There is no place for racism. Clean career and with many colleagues and friends in the day to day. Sometimes you have to learn to lose and take it on the field."
"Assume what you say, be a man. Racist!", The Brazilian footballer replied.
"You are very short"
The newspaper library keeps a striking episode that unites these two protagonists and also the scourge of racism.
In January 2016, Neymar had to listen in Cornellà to sounds imitating a monkey by Espanyol radicals in a derby against Barcelona.
Álvaro's reaction after the meeting was forceful: "Of course we condemn the racist screams."
During his time as a Espanyol footballer, he also had them with
Leo Messi
.
In that same derby, he took out his elbow and the Argentine forward, after spitting on the ground, asked him for explanations.
"You are very short," the central apologized sardonically.
"And you are very bad," replied the Barça player.
"We were both right, there is no more story. He laughs and I laugh, they are those kinds of things that have to stay there," he commented after the meeting.
Later, recalling the episode, he was more graphic: "I went with everything, I called him a dwarf and then he humiliated me."
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