The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) announced on Tuesday that the red card Real Madrid forward, Vinicius Jr. received on Sunday’s LaLiga encounter at Valencia, when he was also subjected to racial abuse, had been rescinded.
After a fight with Valencia players in which Vinicius seemed to be grabbed around the neck. The Brazilian winger was dismissed in stoppage time by referee Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea for punching an opponent.
Vinicius had previously experienced racial taunts from spectators at the Mestalla Stadium. Which forced the game to be stopped for ten minutes while the player pointed out the perpetrators.
According to Irish Examiner, the Spanish Football Federation revealed this in a statement which goes: “The RFEF Competition Committee considers that the referee’s assessment was determined by the omission of the entirety of the play that took place, which affected the refereeing decision,” the federation said.
“The fact that he (the referee) was deprived of a decisive part of the facts led him to adopt an arbitrary decision. And this is because it was impossible for him to properly assess what happened.”
The Spanish police earlier on Tuesday detained seven persons who were charged with various hate crimes against Vinicius.
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The RFEF had previously announced that the Valencia stadium’s south stand will be partially shuttered for five matches as a result. And the club had been fined 45,000 euros.
The punishment, according to Valencia, is “disproportionate” and “unfair”. Saying it hurts the fans who were not participants in the “shameful incident.” The club also stated that they would appeal the stadium’s partial shutdown.
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