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No one has remained indifferent to the huge controversy that overshadowed Tuesday’s Benfica-Real Madrid match. Gianluca Prestianni, a 20-year-old Argentine player, was accused by several Real Madrid players of hurling racist insults at Vinicius. In recent hours, the Brazilian has been backed by numerous personalities who have condemned acts of this kind.
Felipe Melo, a former soccer player and Vini’s compatriot, turned joy into hatred when he went from celebrating Galatasaray’s victory over Juve to mercilessly criticizing what happened on the pitch at Da Luz: “Fire to the racists. And if you defend racists, fire too.” Melo said on his social media, using fire as a synonym for the action of firing or detonating a weapon, very different from the meaning of the expression in Spanish.
Without further ado, and clearly fired up by the whole incident, he didn’t hold back when talking about Prestianni himself: “His wife must have cheated on him with a black man…” This came right after he said that Vini could celebrate however he wanted and that he wasn’t trying to provoke anyone.