#spanish FA

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Very tough read this..

The shocking abuse Real Madrid's Vinicius Jr faced at Valencia revealed in new report

This gotta stop. Abusing their race is not it. Having a beef with the players performance or opposition suporters are the parcel of this game, but throwing racist remark? that just plain stupid.

Warning: This article contains racist language that has been included by The Athletic to ensure the severity of it is not lost.

On Tuesday afternoon, the Spanish Football Federation’s Competition Committee (CC) met to discuss Sunday’s match between Valencia and Real Madrid, where Vinicius Junior suffered shocking racist abuse.

The CC is a technically independent body that rules on punishments and disciplinary action at various levels of the Spanish game. It is made up of three members; one appointed by the Spanish FA, one by La Liga, and one by the Consejo Superior de Deportes, a governmental body.

Its president and “sole competition judge” is a Spanish lawyer, Carmen Perez, who is the Spanish FA’s appointee.

Their meeting took several hours longer than usual. By late evening, its report was ready to be published. Valencia were hit with a partial stadium ban for five matches and a fine of €45,000 (£39,100; $48,500). The red card shown to Vinicius Jr at the end of Sunday’s game was also rescinded.

These were the top lines — but within the report’s pages, there was more key detail about exactly what happened. Here is what it said.

The decision to partially shut Valencia’s ground

The CC report detailed how before kick-off, as Real Madrid’s players got off their team bus at the gates of Valencia’s Mestalla stadium, “hundreds of fans who were stationed in the surroundings” chanted: “You are a monkey… Vinicius you are a monkey.”

It went on to detail the severity and regularity of further racist chanting directed at Vinicius Jr during the match.

The referee’s report from Sunday only made mention of one example of this happening. This was in the 73rd minute when referee Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea stopped the match and an announcement was made over the public address system — part of an anti-racism protocol.

As captured by TV cameras, Vinicius Jr confronted fans who were in a stand behind one of the goals, pointing to them and accusing them of racially abusing him.

“You, you, you’re the one who called me a monkey,” he appeared to be saying, as players from both sides gathered on the scene. He made a gesture as if to say they’d been calling him a monkey or making monkey noises towards him.

The CC report mirrors De Burgos Bengoetxea’s version of events, but it also details further insults that were directed at Vinicius Jr between this point and the end of the match. Without quantifying how many individuals were involved, or what part of the stadium it came from, they cite supporters as shouting or chanting:

‘F*cking black you’re an idiot’

‘I sh*t on your dead (family) son of a b*tch’

‘Vinicius idiot’

‘F*cking black son of a b*tch’

‘Vinicius dog… son of a b*tch’

‘Monkey you are a f*cking monkey’

“The Competition Committee has sanctioned Valencia CF with the partial closure of the Mestalla stadium for five matches,” the report said.

The stand that will be closed is the south stand, named after ex-Argentina international Mario Kempes.

Valencia have also been fined €45,000. This is the highest financial penalty imposed on a Spanish football club following racist abuse at a ground.

Valencia almost immediately announced that they would appeal against the stadium closure, adding in a statement: “Valencia CF wishes to show its total disagreement and indignation at the unfair and disproportionate penalty imposed by the Competition Committee on the club.

The decision to rescind Vinicius Jr’s red card

The CC report also describes how monkey chants were heard throughout the game and that after Vinicius Jr was sent off in the 90th minute, there was a “general chant throughout the stands of ‘monkey, monkey’.”

Vinicius Jr was shown the red card after some pushing and shoving between multiple players on both sides in injury time. De Burgos Bengoetxea initially showed Vinicius Jr the yellow card.

After he was instructed to review the footage, the VAR provided images of Vinicius Jr raising his hand towards Hugo Duro’s face. It did not show how the Valencia forward had put his arm around the Brazilian’s neck just before.

Real Madrid, as part of a body of evidence they presented for this report, characterised Vinicius Jr’s actions in this way, according to the CC: “In a desperate attempt to get the rival player’s arm off his neck, given the imminent risk of asphyxiation, (he) instinctively pulls the rival player off him.”

The CC report said that because VAR footage did not show this physical confrontation in its entirety, the referee had since requested that Vinicius Jr’s sending-off be rescinded.

The CC report said that as the referee had been “deprived of a decisive part of the facts”, it had been “impossible for him to properly assess what had occurred”.

On Monday night, it emerged that Iglesias Villanueva, the match official who was in charge of the VAR team for Sunday’s fixture, would be removed from taking up the role again following a decision by the Spanish FA and its technical refereeing committee.

Vinicius Jr is now free to play in Real Madrid’s final matches of the season. The red card would have seen him suspended for two of their three remaining games.

However, the Brazilian is not expected to play in Wednesday’s home meeting with Rayo Vallecano because of a knee problem that also makes him a doubt for Saturday’s trip to Sevilla.

Former player Alberto Edjogo-Owono spoke on The Athletic Football Podcast about his experiences of racism in Spanish football, how it made him feel and what should be done to eradicate it. Here is a section of his discussion with Mark Chapman and Dermot Corrigan…

“If you want to play football in Spain, you have to assume that these things could happen. So you are prepared. You are ready and you are educated, focused on that. That could happen.

“My father always said, ‘OK, guys, If you want to play football, you have to assume that this can happen. So you have to be 120 per cent stronger. You have to be 100 per cent more consistent’.

“But what Vinicius has reached, for me, it’s a breaking event.”

[patko0]

Happy Miku Monday everynya

[mea-clara-lux]

Yo no soy marinero

Soy capitán × 3

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C4F1's Sunday coverage of the Spanish GP 2023 (part four)

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Spanish GP— Friday

[unagrancantidaddepanes]

(he keeps hearing snufkin say hijo de puta but has no idea what it means <33)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xsZoPVi2Ik <--- from this

cuantos años tienes = how old are u

[oscarcito]

transcribing oscar interviews is what the c1 English exams listening were trying to prepare me for

[userverstappen]

astonmartinf1: Crucial double points secured in a team effort from Lance Stroll and home hero Fernando Alonso.

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Language Goals 2024

Another year, another set of goals! This year, in the actual spirit of my very reasonable 2022 language goals, here are my plans for language study.

Catalan

First and foremost, my goal is to find Catalan friends in my new hometown, because I really need to speak Catalan with people at minimum once a week or I get very sad, and currently I’m not speaking it with anyone at all. This goal is pretty chill though—I just have to actually sit down and put in the time to find people.

My main goal is to read 30 books in Catalan. I’ll make a proper post about it with a list of books that I’m thinking of and how the challenge itself is going to work, but overall I’m trying to pick a mix of styles and genres, so expect anything from medieval literature to YA novels to academic texts. I have a lot of books that I’ve been meaning to read for a while, so hopefully this will give me a chance to chip into some of them. 30 books is less than other versions of this challenge that I’ve seen, but it’s also many more books than I’ve read in Catalan possibly ever and I think it’s more reasonable in conjunction with a full class load. Hopefully it ends up being just the right amount!

Welsh & Basque

This year I really want to work hard to actually get these two to an upper intermediate level, because I’m so close if I put in the work. For both of them, I have two main goals: (1) go through the textbooks/workbooks that I started going through casually last semester (Basic Welsh: A Grammar and Workbook by Gareth King and Standard Basque: A Progressive Grammar by Rudolf P.G. de Rijk) so that I can continue to review and learn new grammatical structures, and (2) watch one episode of a TV series each week in each language. For the TV series, I’m going to be watching Rownd a Rownd on S4C (which is available outside Wales/the UK! Huge win!) and Eskamak kentzen on EITB. If I have time, I’ll try to go through episodes more thoroughly and note down new vocabulary and such, but the main goal is to make a routine of it and watch consistently so I’m trying to keep it simple. I’d also like to use both languages with other people more often if I can, but I think finding a consistent language partner will perhaps be a goal for another year.

Malayalam

I’m planning to focus the first half of the year on Welsh and Basque, and then next fall, I’m hoping to be able to take the Malayalam classes offered by my university and to get into studying my home dialect (or rather, my extended family’s home dialect, since I didn’t speak it at home) as well. Since this will be later and also classroom learning rather than self-study, I’m not going to go into details, but overall, after my trip to Kerala (which I have stuff about, it’s on the docket!), I’m generally feeling much less alienated and much more motivated to study the language. I’m also looking forward to being able to take real classes, which I think will help keep me focused and on track.

Russian

This is a minor goal, but at my friend’s house over the summer, her mom was joking that if they just spoke to me in Russian while I stayed at their house, I’d probably be able to understand it by the end. That led us to concoct a plan where I study a bit of Russian vocab, then go there and do intensive Russian immersion for a weekend or so. This is more of a silly goal, but I’d like to try it because I think it could be fun.

Anki

This isn’t a language goal per se, but rather a general resolution to spend this year learning to use (and tweaking and configuring) Anki. Anki has a notoriously high barrier to entry, and from everything I’ve seen it should be treated as a long-term, intensive project—I’ll hopefully reap the rewards later if I take my time and set up everything right in the early stages. With that in mind, I’m hoping that by the end of the year I’ve figure out a set up for my decks and cards that really works for getting me to remember and be able to use vocab and grammar. I’ll focus on the languages here for the start, but I’m hoping that with habit and time, if I get a good system going I can use it with other languages too.

And that’s it! It’s been a bit since I was systematic about studying languages, but I’ve found that I really miss it and want to go back. I feel like I’m at a really good place with all of these, and I’d like to continue to make progress, so I’m really trying to focus on consistency and hitting the sweet spot of just challenging enough to get myself out of my comfort zone while not burning out. Hopefully I’ve set this up in a way to build habits and make me excited to keep immersing myself with these languages in the coming years, which is really the key to learning any language in the long term—I've realized that I speak Catalan so well because it's fully integrated into my life, and I'd like all these others to be as well. Here’s to a good 2024, and I wish all of you luck with your own goals as well!

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Armando’s Rhumba by Chick Corea & The Spanish Heart Band, live at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2019

[carebearcody]

still vilda out tho bc he fucking sucks

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pedri injured im gonna kms we can't have anything good huh

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so glad i didn’t stick around to watch the presentation ceremony cause i don’t wanna watch the spanish fa basically sexually assault jennifer hermoso.

[consultingblogger]

Brilliantly clever sketch.

The accent might have been my favourite part. Did love the Gaudi line too.