BARÇA JOINS THE CAMPAIGN
Barça's statement to fight and protest against racism
Published:1/06/2020 - 08:31h
Updated:1/06/2020 - 09:49h
The murder of George Floyd by a police officer in the United States has sparked a wave of protests and campaigns against racism and police violence. Barça wanted to contribute their grain of sand by joining with a statement
George Floyd was murdered by some police this past week in Minnesota and his sad death has given the turn to the world. The racism and the police violence is one of the greater problems that there is in United States and the world is outraged in front of the atrocity that has sucedido. In the North American country there has been already infinity of courses, concentrations and protests asking justice for Floyd, a black man to the that killed Derek Chauvin, some white police.
The anger and frustration that there is across the pond has arrived also to Europe and to the world of the sport, that is dumping to his way in this campaign against the racism. The FC Barcelona has not doubted in pronouncing on this in a communiqué in which it has left clear that is totally against of any discrimination. The Barcelona always have positioned when it has done fault and in this case could not be less.
— FC Barcelona (from ?) (@FCBarcelona) May 31, 2020
"The racism like form of discrimination that looks for to degrade and marginar to the people by questions of gender, sexual orientation, origins or colour of the skin is a pandemia that affects us to all. In the Barça will not stop to struggle against this. This also is our commitment", prayed the writing that published the club. In addition to these words, an important player of the group barcelonista also wanted to participate in these protests.
Frenkie Of Jong decided to go up a photography to his account of Twitter beside his mate of selection and fellow Georgino Wijnaldum. This instantaneous belongs to an occasion in which both reported in November of the 2019 a racist episode against Ahmad Moreira, player of the Excelsior, in a crash between his and the Give Bosch. The midfield player culé wanted to go back to leave clear his posture to support in this case to Floyd.
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— Frenkie Of Jong (@DeJongFrenkie21) May 31, 2020
Messages of support in the Bundesliga
To the margin of the communiqué of the Barça and of the tuit of support of Of Jong, in the Bundesliga also have dumped in these protests along this last day. The first in doing echo was the American midfield player of the Schalke 04, Weston McKennie. The one of Texas carried a bracelet against the Werder Bremen with the message "Justice for George" (Justice for George) to claim the figure of his killed compatriot.
Besides, this past Sunday also there were homages in the parties of the Borussia Dortmund and of the Borussia Mönchengladbach. In the first place, Marcus Thuram, son of the ex Barcelona Lilian, celebrated the first of the two goals that marked in the triumph by 4-1 in front of the Union Berlin pinning the knee in the floor and bending the head. This gesture was the one who used Colin Kaepernik in his day to protest against the racism in United States.
On the other hand, Jadon Sancho and Achraf Hakimi carried a T-shirt with the message "Justice for George". The English, that marked a stood out 'hat-trick' in ela goleada of his team by 1-6 against the Paderborn, did not doubt in removing the elastic of the Dortmund so that his message arrived to all the world. In the next days could have more homages in a world of the increasingly involved football with these sad episodes.
