Do you remember

Wilfred Agbonavbare

?

The historic Nigerian goalkeeper for Rayo Vallecano, who died six years ago, dared in 1992 to preach in the desert.

"In Spain there is racism."

And that he chose not to flinch on the field when, behind him, he heard the shout of the fans: "Black, you bastard, pick up the cotton."

In stands like the one at the Bernabéu, the kids were recreated with songs that were then made fun of: "Ku, Klux, Klan."

Attitudes that were reproduced in all the fields of Spain without anyone doing anything.

Almost three decades later, Spanish football still continues to wonder how to resolve the embarrassment of racism.

The last episode had the French

Mouctar Diakhaby

as the protagonist.

After hearing an alleged racist insult from the Cádiz footballer

Juan Cala

- "shitty black", according to Valencia sources - his teammates went to the locker room.

But the plant, which would have been a historic and perhaps definitive event for Spanish football in the fight against racism, only lasted a few minutes.

Diakhaby was left crying in the locker room.

The rest of the players continued the game without him.

Valencia argued that the victim had wanted it that way.

So nothing changes.

Or, at least, not enough.

In 2006,

Samuel Eto'o

already threatened to leave La Romareda after the racist insults he received from the stands.

The Cameroonian footballer was about to take a corner when the fans began to imitate the screams of an ape.

"There were not one, not 10, not 100 people," recalled the referee

Esquinas Torres,

who decided to stop the match.

"I asked the delegate to stop the insults, and he seemed not to know what I was talking about," insisted Esquinas Torres.

"I don't play anymore!" Eto'o began to repeat, ready to leave the field.

The referee stopped him.

Also the Zaragoza players.

Even some from Barcelona.

Ronaldinho

seemed the only one who supported Eto'o.

Until the Brazilian

Ewerthon

said that if Eto'o left, he would too.

And the waters returned to their course.

"He insulted me almost the whole field. Is there a problem in being black? I made this decision, because they were messing with my color. They are ridiculous, they buy tickets to see games in which colored boys play," the Cameroonian forward later declared .

Madridistas

Roberto Carlos

or

Marcelo

were also subjected to racist insults during their long career in the Spanish fields.

"You're a monkey", the latter heard after concluding a derby against Atlético at the Calderón.

The UEFA Control and Disciplinary Committee opened a procedure against

Sergio Busquets

in 2011

for alleged racist insults against Marcelo.

"Much nose," said the midfielder who told him.

That was what Barcelona alluded to.

UEFA dismissed the sanction "in the absence of solid and convincing evidence."

In 2014, Brazilian

Dani Alves was

thrown a banana in the Villarreal field.

The lane player chose to eat it looking at the stands.

Cameroonian goalkeeper

Carlos Kameni

also spent half his life enduring the scourge of racism.

"For things like that, one can come home and commit suicide," the former Málaga or Espanyol goalkeeper declared.

"Jump the fence, Kameni jump the fence", the radicals of Atlético came to release him.

Athletic striker

Iñaki Williams

, at least, has been able to see how xenophobia in football ended up in court.

Insulted in a match against Espanyol in Cornellà in 2020, the Barcelona Hate Crimes Prosecutor's Office filed a complaint against several of the fans who had insulted him.

Williams, at trial, said he felt "humiliated."

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