We are all Monkeys!: Banana Selfie Trend Goes Viral
A spectator threw a banana at Barcelona defender Dani Alves during a Spanish Championship match, but the Brazilian national, took onlookers aback by picking up the fruit and taking a bite in defiance.
President Rousseff called Alves' response to the racist slur "POWERFUL."
"Footballer @DaniAlvesD2 gave an audacious and powerful response to racism in sport," she wrote on her official Twitter account, lamenting the frequency with which the events also occur in stadiums in Brazil.
FC Barcelona said in a statement: "The immediate, public condemnation of those aggressions seen at the El Madrigal stadium are a step in the right direction, a direction that will convert football pitches into spaces where the inadequate behavior of certain people is first isolated and then eradicated for good."
According to Daily Sabah, the fan in question has been identified and banned from the stadium in the Spanish city of Villarreal.
Fellow Brazilian player Neymar da Silva Santo, who also plays for Barcelona, sparked a campaign on his Instagram account with the hashtag #somostodosmacacos - Portuguese for "we are all monkeys."
The movement has since seen fellow footballers, celebrities and tens of thousands of fans post photos of themselves on the social media, holding or eating bananas in support of the anti-racism campaign.
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| Sergio Aguero, Marta, Neymar, Mario Balotelli, Luis Suarez and Philippe Coutinho have all posted photos on social networks |
"Footballer @DaniAlvesD2 gave an audacious and powerful response to racism in sport," she wrote on her official Twitter account, lamenting the frequency with which the events also occur in stadiums in Brazil.
FC Barcelona said in a statement: "The immediate, public condemnation of those aggressions seen at the El Madrigal stadium are a step in the right direction, a direction that will convert football pitches into spaces where the inadequate behavior of certain people is first isolated and then eradicated for good."
According to Daily Sabah, the fan in question has been identified and banned from the stadium in the Spanish city of Villarreal.
Fellow Brazilian player Neymar da Silva Santo, who also plays for Barcelona, sparked a campaign on his Instagram account with the hashtag #somostodosmacacos - Portuguese for "we are all monkeys."
The movement has since seen fellow footballers, celebrities and tens of thousands of fans post photos of themselves on the social media, holding or eating bananas in support of the anti-racism campaign.
We are all Monkeys!: Banana Selfie Trend Goes Viral
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