<aside> 🚨 El Chiringuito threatened Vinicius Jr to prevent him from releasing his video.
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<aside> ⚠️ The content here is just a translation of what’s mentioned on Iñaki Angulo’s video, and none of the information mentioned or the takes are personal/mine.
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On Thursday night, Pedro Bravo says some polemic words about Vinicius on El Chiringuito, saying that he should stop “doing the monkey”, and saying that “if he wants to dance he can go back to Brazil to do it”.
https://twitter.com/KMB9_/status/1570550708113637376?s=20&t=fLkW8jF0HM6Tn2lNAgvqSw
Pedro Bravo later apologized on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/PedroBravoJ/status/1570596236755075073?s=20&t=fLkW8jF0HM6Tn2lNAgvqSw
“Doing the monkey” (”hacer el mono” 🇪🇸) is a common expression in Spain, but saying it when talking about a black player has clear racist and xenophobic connotations and there’s just zero excuses about it.
That created a huge reaction on social media from a lot of personalities on the soccer world: Neymar Jr, Pelé, Arsenal and Ronaldo among many others posted on social media supporting Vinicius with the hashtag #BailaViniJr.
Then Real Madrid ends up reacting and posts a Comunicado Oficial supporting Vinicius Jr.
On Friday afternoon, it starts circulating around Spanish sports press that Vinicius Jr was working on a public statement that we was going to publish on that same day.
And he did it. You can see it in full here.
A journalist from El Chiringuito threatens Vinicius Jr.
There’s a textual phrase that was said on that conversation:
If you release that video, we are going to destroy you in “El Chiringuito”.
Iñaki says that he can’t say the name of the specific journalist that said it, because he believes the person that communicated it to Vini Jr was just doing it on behalf of the executing arm of everything that happens in El Chiringuito.
So Iñaki doesn’t mention who said the words, but he says “evidently El Chiringuito has a boss and that boss is Josep Pedrerol”.
That message wasn’t told directly to Vinicius Jr, but to someone from his direct environment.
He says that “he knows a lot more” that he’s not able to share at the moment.