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Manchester United midfielder Fred says ‘we can’t feed that culture’ after becoming the latest footballer to receive racist abuse online.
The Brazilian international was attacked with monkey emojis on Instagram following his team’s 3-1 FA Cup quarter-final loss to Leicester on Sunday, where he gifted the ball to Kelechi Iheanacho before the Foxes’ first goal. .
Along with an image of himself kneeling and the message ‘No more racism’, Fred wrote on Instagram: ‘Comments on social networks full of hatred and, above all, racism: we cannot feed that culture.
‘We can’t accept it (sic). We have to fight her always. We are bigger and better than that. Enough!’
Other comments telling the Brazilian to ‘go back to the favelas’ followed the final whistle on Sunday, the same day that 17-year-old Jude Bellingham also received racist insults.
Fred, who also couldn’t get close enough to Youri Tielemans as the midfielder passed to score Leicester’s second, was hooked by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after 84 minutes at King Power Stadium.
Online trolls commented on an Instagram photo the midfielder posted after United’s Europa League win over AC Milan earlier in the week, with one user repeatedly sending monkey emojis.
Fred has now turned off comments on his Instagram page, and previous posts have been used by other users to launch vile racist abuses.
The incidents occurred on the same day that Borussia Dortmund and England star Bellingham revealed that he too had been attacked online.
By sharing a screenshot on Instagram, the former Birmingham midfielder revealed that he had been sent monkey and feces emojis along with a series of derogatory comments such as ‘f *** your mother’.
Fred is one of several United players who have been abused in recent weeks.
Marcus Rashford released a statement about the comments directed at him in late January, while Anthony Martial and Axel Tuanzebe were also targeted.
Manchester United have previously condemned abuse targeting their players by ‘mindless idiots’ and, in a Twitter post citing Fred’s statement on Monday, said: ‘We are together #UnitedAgainstRacism.’
This is not the first time that Fred has faced the end of racist abuse in England. A man was arrested and charged after the Manchester derby in December 2019 after being caught making an alleged racist gesture towards the Brazilian in the crowd.
Earlier this month, UK Football Police Chief Detective Police Chief Mark Roberts said the response from social media companies in helping police identify abusers has been “regrettable”.
At the time, a spokesperson for Facebook, which also owns Instagram, said the company will “continue to work with law enforcement and the wider industry to collectively address this issue.”
Source: m.allfootballapp.com
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