TOTTENHAM FORWARD RICHARLISON had a banana thrown at him as he was racially abused during Brazil’s friendly win over Tunisia in Paris on Tuesday.
The incident occurred as the former Everton striker ran towards the corner flag to celebrate scoring his side’s second goal in their 5-1 win at the Parc des Princes.
Footage showed Manchester United midfielder Fred kicking the banana away.
Prior to the game, the Brazil team had posed for photographs with an anti-racism banner which read, ‘Without our black players, we wouldn’t have stars on our shirts’.
The Brazilian Football Federation (CBF) later issued a statement on the Richarlison incident via Twitter.
It read: “Unfortunately a banana was thrown on the pitch towards Richarlison, scorer of the second Brazilian goal.
“The CBF reinforces its position to combat racism and repudiates any manifestation of prejudice.”
Richarlison’s goal put Brazil back ahead after Montassar Talbi cancelled out Raphinha’s opener. Neymar added a penalty, Raphinha claimed his second and Pedro wrapped up the scoring after Tunisia had Dylan Bronn sent off.
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Great analysis as always
Hastoy and Nowell have to do better than that , could have put Baird into touch and maybe shifted their teams momentum. A lot of LAR didn’t seem up for it on Sat , Antonio and Skelton in particular were bullied, one has to wonder what impact their Cork preparation had on their mentality
@Owen ODonoghue: they had a tough match in South Africa and a lot of travelling. I think they were gassed early in the second half.
@Owen ODonoghue: To be fair, Hastoy fell off that tackle. Def should have done better. But Nowell’s job was to concentrate on Lowe. After the pass went to Baird, he was never going to get back to stop Baird – but he shouldn’t have had to. He would have expected Hastoy to make the tackle and force another phase.
@kieran horgan: going on the lash in cork will do that to ya . They could have been back in LAR by Monday , light training tues to Thurs and flown to Dublin refreshed on Friday
@Owen ODonoghue: ROG explained the logic of that. Paris to La Rochelle would have added 6 hours travel last Monday and another 6 hours on the way to Dublin maybe they won’t fly Ryanair ;). He said it would have meant the loss of a training day and they couldn’t afford that.
@Paul Ennis: except it’s not 6 hours….
I wish people in Ireland wd start questioning more some of the nonsense O’Gara comes out with..
@Andrew Hurley: You sound like a man with experience of that drive… have you ever tried it? In a car? On a coach? Getting out of Charles de Gaulle (which is a nightmare) and then drive without a single stop? You would do well to do it in 6 hours.
@Paul Ennis: they could also just charter from La Rochelle to Dublin , it’s not hard and could probably get ECPR to cover
Does anybody else think that Jenkins knows exactly what he is doing with Latu here? Or am I giving him too much credit haha? Every time I watch it I swear he makes sure those legs get around to.impwde him but then I just think it’s momentum and nobody is that smart
La Rochelle looked visibly tired.
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