Dani Alves Hit’s Back at Racist Fan[/b]
Barcelona has defended Daniel Alves for his response to a racist taunt and teammate Neymar posted a photo of himself with a peeled banana on the internet in support.
Alves, who is black, was about to take a corner in Sunday's 3-2 win at Villarreal when a banana was thrown at him. The Brazil international picked it up, peeled it and ate some of it before throwing the rest aside. After the match, Alves said humor was the best way to combat racism in sport. Barcelona says it wishes to express its complete support and solidarity with our first team player Dani Alves. Besides Neymar, Argentina striker Sergio Aguero, Brazil women's striker Marta and former Brazil international Roberto Carlos also posted internet photos of themselves with bananas.
Domingos Alves, 64, meanwhile came up with a cool response of his own I plant mangos, coconuts, melons, watermelons, passion fruit and now I'm going to plant bananas, he told Globo's G1 news portal from his home in the northern state of Bahia. But he added a note of caution, saying he feared one day a racist fan might go as far as trying to poison a player. It's dangerous as someone might put something inside (a banana) with a different intention. A person like this could go as far as doing something different and even poison someone. And he added he would be telling his son not to eat any more bananas on the pitch.
Alves' mother Lucia Ribeiro added she was proud of her son's reaction, which she said was a slap in the face for prejudice. Alves himself joked on Twitter that my father always told me to eat bananas to avoid getting cramp. The player's smart response to the latest in a series of racist incidents at Spanish matches rallied fellow athletes, with dozens posting pictures of themselves on social media chomping bananas. Rousseff and FIFA president Sepp Blatter added supportive messages of their own while condemning racism. Joining the flood of Brazilian luminaries posting to social media websites was Selecao centre forward Fred, who posted to his Facebook page a picture of him making an obscene, bent-arm gesture in response to racism in Portuguese the gesture translates as do a banana.
Barcelona has defended Daniel Alves for his response to a racist taunt and teammate Neymar posted a photo of himself with a peeled banana on the internet in support.
Alves, who is black, was about to take a corner in Sunday's 3-2 win at Villarreal when a banana was thrown at him. The Brazil international picked it up, peeled it and ate some of it before throwing the rest aside. After the match, Alves said humor was the best way to combat racism in sport. Barcelona says it wishes to express its complete support and solidarity with our first team player Dani Alves. Besides Neymar, Argentina striker Sergio Aguero, Brazil women's striker Marta and former Brazil international Roberto Carlos also posted internet photos of themselves with bananas.
Domingos Alves, 64, meanwhile came up with a cool response of his own I plant mangos, coconuts, melons, watermelons, passion fruit and now I'm going to plant bananas, he told Globo's G1 news portal from his home in the northern state of Bahia. But he added a note of caution, saying he feared one day a racist fan might go as far as trying to poison a player. It's dangerous as someone might put something inside (a banana) with a different intention. A person like this could go as far as doing something different and even poison someone. And he added he would be telling his son not to eat any more bananas on the pitch.
Alves' mother Lucia Ribeiro added she was proud of her son's reaction, which she said was a slap in the face for prejudice. Alves himself joked on Twitter that my father always told me to eat bananas to avoid getting cramp. The player's smart response to the latest in a series of racist incidents at Spanish matches rallied fellow athletes, with dozens posting pictures of themselves on social media chomping bananas. Rousseff and FIFA president Sepp Blatter added supportive messages of their own while condemning racism. Joining the flood of Brazilian luminaries posting to social media websites was Selecao centre forward Fred, who posted to his Facebook page a picture of him making an obscene, bent-arm gesture in response to racism in Portuguese the gesture translates as do a banana.