Tuesday, 29 April 2014

Dani Alves goes Bananas as other stars show their support

Barcelona Ace Dani Alves is now in the centre of Racism taunting as he became a victim in Barca's match against Villareal on Sunday. The Brazillian was about to take a corner when a Banana was thrown at him from the fans. But he reacted with class as he picked up the banana and took a big bite before proceeding to take the corner. Stars from around the world have shown their full support to his reaction with the likes of Sergio Aguero, Luis Suarez, Neymar, Mario Baloteli and many others Posting selfies with Bananas. Fifa president Sepp Blatter tweeted: "What
Alves tolerated is an outrage. Will be zero
tolerance at #WorldCup."
Blatter, referring to this summer's tournament in Brazil, added: "We must fight all forms of
discrimination united."
Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff, joined the
widespread outrage.
"The player Dani Alves gave a daring and strong response to racism in sports," she said in a series of Twitter messages, adding that such racism had become "unfortunately common."
FOR HOW LONG WILL RACISM IN FOOTBALL CONTINUE TO OPPRESS? LETS JOIN HANDS TOGETHER AND SAY NO TO RACISM!

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