La Liga president Tebas labels Vinicius Junior’s criticism “unfair”

La Liga president Javier Tebas feels that Vinicius’ criticism of La Liga’s lack of effort in tackling racism, is “unfair”.

The Brazilian winger was racially abused during Madrid’s 2-0 win against Real Valladolid, with

fans visibly verbally abusing him and throwing items towards him when he was substituted. The 22-year-old later took to Instagram criticizing LaLiga bosses for not preventing such behavior.

But it appears Tebas has now responded to those accusations, saying:

"At LaLiga we have been fighting racism for years,"

Tebas tweeted.

"

, it is unfair and not true to publish that 'LaLiga does nothing against racism'.

"Find out more. We are at your disposal so that all together we can go in the same direction."

Included within the tweet was LaLiga’s official statement on the matter, claiming that even before Vinicius’ comments, LaLiga had reported the hate crimes to the legal authorities. The statement read:

"Before the publication of Vinicius Jr, a Real Madrid player, on his social networks making a comment in which he alludes to the lack of action measures by LaLiga in the fight against racism, LaLiga has detected racist insults from someone from the stands of the Zorrilla stadium, [which were] published on social networks.

"These events will be reported to the anti-violence commission and the hate crimes prosecutor's office, as has been done on other occasions in which LaLiga, after investigating racist behaviour inside and outside the stadiums, has led the fight against this type of act."

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