{"id":109371,"date":"2026-02-20T21:45:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T01:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/filipe-luis-says-unacceptable-racism-and-support-for-vinicius\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T21:45:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T01:45:50","slug":"filipe-luis-says-unacceptable-racism-and-support-for-vinicius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/filipe-luis-says-unacceptable-racism-and-support-for-vinicius\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipe Lu\u00eds says: Unacceptable racism and support for Vin\u00edcius"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Filipe Lu\u00eds clarifies stance on racism after controversy over statements about Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior<\/h2>\n\n\nFlamengo coach Filipe Lu\u00eds has issued a statement to clarify his position regarding the racism incident suffered by Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior.\n\nLu\u00eds&#8217;s statements came after the 1-0 defeat to Lan\u00fas in the first leg of the Recopa Sudamericana, which generated various reactions.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Racism is unacceptable.<\/p><cite>Filipe Lu\u00eds<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nIn his statement, Filipe Lu\u00eds emphasized that racism is an unacceptable behavior that must be combated and punished. He acknowledged that his previous words may have been misinterpreted due to the sensitivity of the issue.\n\nThe former Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid and Deportivo de La Coru\u00f1a player insisted that his position is firm and recalled that racism is a crime in Brazil, so it must be treated with the same rigor in any country.\n\nFurthermore, he expressed his full support for Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior, Real Madrid forward and trained in the lower categories of Flamengo.\n\nThe controversy arose following an incident in the Champions League, where Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior reported a racist insult from the Argentinian player Gianluca Prestianni.\n\nIn a press conference, Filipe Lu\u00eds had commented that he was always treated well in Argentina and that an &#8220;isolated case&#8221; would not change his perception of the country. This comment generated criticism.\n\nIn his clarification, Filipe Lu\u00eds reiterated that he never wanted to minimize Vin\u00edcius&#8217;s suffering and reaffirmed his rejection of any form of discrimination in sports.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filipe Lu\u00eds clarifies stance on racism after controversy over statements about Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior Flamengo coach Filipe Lu\u00eds has issued a statement to clarify his position regarding the racism incident suffered by Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior. Lu\u00eds&#8217;s statements came after the 1-0 defeat to Lan\u00fas in the first leg of the Recopa Sudamericana, which generated various reactions. Racism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[5018,4059,2277,402],"class_list":{"0":"post-109371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-filipe-luis","9":"tag-flamengo","10":"tag-racism","11":"tag-vinicius-junior"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}