Olhanense footballer Edson this Sunday accused a Rabo de Peixe player of racially insulting during a Portuguese championship game after he was ejected for complaining, while the Azores club rejected the accusation.
“Moments after he was, unintentionally, missed after another foul, when we were in the penalty area he said ‘you black shit’,” the Algarve midfielder told Lusa, who blamed the team’s ‘number 10’. Azorean player, Diogo Andrade, adding that at least one other Rabo de Peixe player will have heard the alleged insult.
The 26-year-old Portuguese-Guinean player explained that he went straight to the referee, Ricardo Góis (Setúbal Football Association), to inform him of what had happened.
“I immediately went to talk to the referee. He told me he would be careful, but I told him it was racism and he couldn’t just say that. He gave me the yellow card and, after I spoke again, he gave me the second yellow card,” said Edson, who was sent off in the 38th minute of the game, which ended in a victory for Rabo de Peixe (2-0) and reduced the home side to eight players after two more expulsions in the second half. second half.
On the occasion of Edson’s exclusion, the match was interrupted for about five minutes, with the structure and other Olhanense players protesting to the referee.
Diogo Andrade, player of Rabo de Peixe, did not speak after the game, but the sports director of the Azores denied the accusation.
“When it happened I was sitting on the bench but my players told me that the term the Olhanense player is claiming was not the term my player said. If it happened it would be a shame, but from what the players told me said, nobody says the conversation was like that,” said Hernâni Melo.
The president of the SAD do Olhanense, Luís Torres, told Lusa that the club would protest in the match report and forward the allegation to the Portuguese Football Association.
At his request, the PSP agents who were present at the José Arcanjo stadium in Olhão recorded the incident.
Source: DN
