Experts in lip reading confirm that Neymar was called a monkey by Álvaro González

Lip reading experts confirmed this Sunday in an interview with TV Globo, that Neymar was the target of racism by Spanish defender Álvaro González of Olympique de Marseille. They said that the defender addressed the word “monkey” to the Brazilian striker of Paris Saint-Germain in the classic played on the 13th, in Paris, for the French Championship.

The experts heard are Luis Felipe Ramos, who is part of the Rio de Janeiro Deaf Association, Felipe Oliver and Mikel Vidal, translators of pounds that work for the National Institute of Education for the Deaf – the latter is the son of Colombians and has training advanced in Spanish.

“He speaks the word ‘monkey’ in Spanish, at the moment when he even speaks and turns his mouth. It becomes clear there. We could not, for example, understand what he was saying before pronouncing the word ‘mono’ But the word ‘monkey ‘It was a passage that we had consensus at the time I was doing the lip-reading work, ”said Felipe Oliver.

The infraction would have occurred in the first half of the game, after a disagreement between the attacker and the defender. Neymar approached the fourth official and said the words “racism, no!”, But the referee team did nothing. At the end of the match, after a general fight, Neymar slapped González on the head and received a red card.

The discussion continued on social networks, where Neymar said that the only regret was not having “hit the guy”; González declared that he was not racist, hinted that the situation was due to the defeat of Paris Saint-Germain and published a photo of the Olympique de Marseille squad – then the Brazilian responded by criticizing and saying that he “was not a man to assume the error “.

Olympique de Marseille defended González and said that the Spaniard is not racist. The uncle of a defender said the word was “silly” and not “cute” in an interview in Spain.

Neymar was sanctioned with two matches for the red card. Paris Saint-Germain has prepared a dossier for the forward’s defense and, if González is sanctioned, he could be out of up to 10 games.