Vinicius adds his voice after third tier game in Spain suspended due to racist insults from fans

The 1A RFEF match between Sestao and Rayo Majadahonda was in the 87th minute when the keeper of the visiting side confronted fans who were abusing him racially and was sent off.

Spanish football was once agin tarnished by an ugly episode of racism as third tier side Rayo Majadahonda made a stand and refused to complete their away game against Sestao.

The Madrid based team were playing at Campo Municipal de Fútbol de Las Llanasand as the clock ticked down towards the end of the contest, Majadahonda goalkeeper Cheikh Sarr confronted a group of the home fans who had insulted him with the keeper being sent off by the match official. The Rayo Majadahonda team decided, as an act of solidarity with their teammate not to continue the game, which in turn forced the referee to suspend the clash.

“Our team will not resume the match after receiving unacceptable racist insults towards our player. We condemn all types of racist insults in sport,” Rayo Majadahonda stated on X shortly after the incident.

The incident occured in the 87th minute of the 1A RFEF game (third tier of Spanish football) with several Sestao fans behind the visiting goal shouting racist chants at Sarr, the Senegalese goalkeeper. Faced with this verbal aggression, the goalkeeper responded by jumping over the fence and confronting several of the perpetrators and his actions receiving a straight red card form the referee.

The referee later claimed in his official match report that he was told in the 84th minute by Sarr that he’d been called ‘a fucking monkey’ and a ‘black piece of shit’. The official added that neither he or any members of his official team heard the insults.

The rest of the Rayo Majadahonda team decided to support their teammate and refused to continue