{"id":9067,"date":"2023-11-21T10:16:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T04:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/21\/vinicius-jr-launches-anti-racism-campaign-in-brazil\/"},"modified":"2023-11-21T10:16:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T04:46:37","slug":"vinicius-jr-launches-anti-racism-campaign-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/21\/vinicius-jr-launches-anti-racism-campaign-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinicius Jr launches anti-racism campaign in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil forward Vinicius Jr stepped up the fight against racism on Monday by launching a campaign under the slogan \u201cRacism, don\u2019t pretend you don\u2019t see it\u201d on billboards across the country for Black Awareness Day.<\/p>\n<p>The Real Madrid player, who has been racially abused regularly in LaLiga games, received the Socrates Award last month for starting a foundation that is building schools in Brazil in impoverished areas and investing in education.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the campaign he has also launched through his foundation the \u201cAnti-Racism Education Handbook\u201d, which aims to help schools make the educational environment more inclusive and avoid stereotypes that foster prejudice.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old winger, who will head a special FIFA anti-racism committee, has advocated harsher punishments for discriminatory behaviour in football, prompting the Rio de Janeiro government to name a law after him that will see sporting events stopped or suspended for racist conduct.<\/p>\n<p>Vinicius Jr has begun treatment in Spain for the hamstring and tendon injury he suffered during Brazil\u2019s 2-1 defeat by Colombia in its World Cup qualifier last week, which has ruled him out of Tuesday\u2019s game against Argentina.<\/p>\n<div class=\"comments-shares share-page\">\n<p class=\"comments\">\nComments\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vinicius, who will head a special FIFA anti-racism committee, has advocated harsher punishments for discriminatory behaviour in football, prompting the Rio de Janeiro government to name a law after him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-sport-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}