Barcelona and other players are supporting Alves after the banana incident



The Catalan giant and Samba team star receives great support from the club and a group of other players after his reaction to being smart on the racist insult. 


Daniel Alves received support from his club Barcelona and a set of other players after his reaction to being smart for racist insult throwing a banana to him during his direction of a corner kick in a match his team's 3-2 wins over Villarreal in the Primera Liga.


Alves caught a banana thrown in front of him on the pitch and eat a piece of it before he completes the play and executes a corner kick.

And Neymar fellow of Alves in Barcelona and Brazil published through his account on Twitter a picture of him holding a banana and written on it, "We are all monkeys and we all either, Say no to racism" and published several other prominent players’ photo of them with bananas like Brazilian Roberto Carlos left-back former Real Madrid.



Barcelona earlier expressed "full support" for Alves and touched "the humiliation suffered by the player for a group of fans."

And Barcelona thanks Villarreal to instant condemnation because of this act.

Barcelona said "Barcelona accept that the perpetrator of such abuse is not linked to Villarreal we appreciate the great support provided by the club for our player." 

And European football plagued in recent years by a series of incidents of racism and subjected to sharp criticism of officials due to his lack of dealing decisively to stop this phenomenon.

Alves complained last year of the launch of fans to the sound of monkeys at him during a match against Real Madrid in the semi-final of the King's Cup and describes Spain efforts to stop this problem as being like "a losing war."

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