Brazilian Serginho says racist chants must stop in Bolivia
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LA PAZ, Bolivia – A Brazilian soccer player who was subjected to monkey chants during a recent game in Bolivia’s professional league says racism must come to an end in the Andean country.
Serginho stormed off the field Sunday during a Bolivian league game that his club Wilstermann lost 2-0 against Blooming.
The 34-year-old striker said Thursday that he had been discriminated from the kick-off, and that he preferred to leave the field because his family was watching the game.
“Every time I had the ball, they’d shout: Monkey! Gorilla!” he said. “A precedent must be set once and for all.”
Blooming condemned the racist chants, but it also filed a complaint demanding that Serginho be suspended for leaving the game. The club argues that he taunted their fans. Meanwhile, Wilstermann has filed a complaint against Blooming in the same court, seeking a sanction against the racist noises emitted by its fans.
Other players have denounced racist incidents in Bolivian soccer, but no sanction has been taken against those acts so far.
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