It seems like a statement found in a time capsule, discovered in the new millennium.
But
no,
José Luis
Chilavert
wrote
a
reflection
on
the
first person to be a victim of racism.
Perhaps as a desperate reflection for his name to join the trend that multiplied on social networks, Chilavert used a typical visibility technique among digital audience hunters:
he chose a post from someone with the largest number of followers and commented on the hot topic. .
"Bread and Circus, the first one to insult and attack rivals is him.
Let him not be a faggot, football is for men
," wrote Chilavert (like this, without accents in some accented words) responding to the publication of journalist
Juan Pablo Varsky
.
The technique worked.
Vinicius, with 7.4 million followers, cried at the conference, Varsky - with an audience of 2.1 million people - published the video of the moment and Chilavert, with 260 thousand followers, responded with his retrograde comment.
Chilavert's response to the post with the news of Vinicus crying.
To endorse it,
he republished 86 comments
from different accounts that praised him and celebrated his homophobic and reactionary bravado.
Soccer has not been a men's thing for many years and in South America, the women's branch gained momentum in the last decade.
According to FIFA data,
around 26 million women play football regularly in 180 countries
around the world and estimates exceed 40 million if you take into account professionals, amateurs and children's academies.
Chilavert, who between San Lorenzo and mainly Vélez, was a professional in Argentina for almost 15 years, suffered signs of racism from the local public and revealed them on various occasions, which is why his position with the Vinicius case is striking.
Even when the Colombian Jairo Castillo landed in Argentine football, he did so in Vélez.
There his fans showed him their affection with an "olé, olé, Negro, Negro" that did not cause the forward any sympathy and then Chilavert, the team captain, asked the Fortín public not to call his teammate that way, since it made him uncomfortable.
The next day, they chanted his name.
An ESI success story, before ESI.
What motivated Vinicius' crying has to do precisely with that:
racism
.
The Brazilian does not give up on this fight or avoid it: he answers when asked and speaks when he needs to, even if the results are not as expected.
"Every complaint I make seems to be worse. I am not fighting against the fans of Spain, I am fighting against racism in the world. I have spoken with many people who have wanted to help me... there will be people who speak well of me, and I speak badly... but I have to get used to that. I always plan to help all organizations to combat racism," he expressed at the same conference.
Bread and Circus, the first one to insult and attack rivals is him. Don't be a faggot, football is for men.
— José Luis FelixChilavert Gonzalez (@JoseLChilavert_) March 26, 2024
With the Real Madrid shirt, Vinicius won the Champions League, the Spanish League twice, a Copa del Rey, the European Super Cup, the Club World Cup twice and a Spanish Super Cup.
If the Brazilian were to find Chilavert's tweet that worked like a parasite on Varsky's, he could tell the Paraguayan: "
You haven't won anything
."
But it's not about that.