Ansu Fati, Barcelona’s rising star, subjected to racist attack by a press member in Spain. The journalist, who compared the 17-year-old striker as “a black boy selling water in the street,” drew a strong reaction.
A new one has been added to the crimes of racism in European football. This time the person who carried out the racist attack is a press member. On the performance of Ansu Fati, who played with 1 goal and 1 assist in the Champions League match where Barcelona beat Ferencvaros 5-1. An ugly analogy was made.
“Ansu runs like a gazelle. He runs like little black boys who say he was selling water while running from the police on Gracia Street,” Salvador Sostres commented on the ABC newspaper.
These words received a strong reaction from the Spanish public. Barcelona’s French forward Antoine Griezmann also supported Fati with his social media message.