ASSUMPTION.- The Porteño Cerro Club of Paraguay has a week to answer the complaint of Palmeiras for the case of racism recorded in the match that both teams played on Thursday in Asunción for the Copa Libertadores Sub-20, sources from the sources of the CONMEBOL At AFP on Saturday.
The governing body of South American football ran transfer of the complaint to the accused club. “The file is open in the disciplinary unit” of Conmebol, an AFP spokesman said.
The match that won the Palmeiras (3-0) at the Genther Vogel stadium in San Lorenzo (outskirts of Asunción) was tarnished by demonstrations of racism from fans to the local cast that made gestures and called Brazilian players “monkey”.
When he made statements, affected by the event, striker Luighi cried before the cameras at the end of the game and the image exasperated and produced massive reactions against the segregation acts, including the president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and the head of FIFA, Gianni Infantino.
Conmebol immediately released a statement in which he highlighted his “sharp rejection against any act of racism or discrimination” and announced that they will implement “the corresponding disciplinary measures” at the time of “evaluating additional actions.”
The direction of the Paraguayan painting also pronounced and repudiated the fact, but Palmeiras claimed the direct expulsion of Cerro del Tournament.
“We are going to get to the last resort for Cerro Porteño and the racists and criminals to be punished in an exemplary way. In fact, we will ask that the team be excluded from the competition,” said the president of the Paulista entity, Leila Pereira.
Recidivist
Cerro Porteño, one of the most popular clubs in Paraguay, must identify the author or authors of the fact, in addition to committing to campaigns against racism in all its future presentations, among other obligations that set the regulatory provisions.
By recidivism, the Barrio Obrero cyclone is exposed to a fine of up to $ 400,000.
Conmebol has already applied a sanction for $ 100,000 on July 22, 2022 for a complaint also filed by Palmeiras after the match for the round of 16 of the Copa Libertadores played on June 29 of that year in Asunción.
The fact also motorized discussions in the networks about whether Paraguayans are racist.
“It would seem that there is a fairly widespread idea that we are not, however, reality seems to be another. Unlike a country like Brazil, where it is expressed above all towards black, in Paraguay the victim is the Indian,” the well -known humanist and political scientist Jorge Rolón Luna told AFP.
“Calling someone ‘Indian’ always has a connotation of contempt or incivility signaling towards a person, but, in addition, as indigenous people live is a concrete sample of how our society marginalizes them, discriminates and oppresses them,” added the graduate.
