The Águilas del América closed a controversial week but with good results. The azulcrema team that on Saturday night won against the Tigres de la UANL (2-0) for the 2024 Clausura Tournament in which there were homophobic chants against Nahuel Guzmánhad previously defeated Chivas de Guadalajara (0-3) in the Concachampions.
In that meeting, corresponding to the first leg of the round of 16 and which took place at the Akron stadiumunfortunate events occurred when a part of the Rebaño Sagrado fans uttered racist insults against Julián Quiñones, who had scored a penalty goal to open the scoring in the 15th minute.
Given these events, the current Mexican soccer champion made a formal complaint to Concacaf, which condemned this behavior on the part of the Chivas fans, whom the América coach, the Brazilian André Jardine, harshly criticized for their racist insults towards the player. Colombian naturalized Mexican origin.
“I always regret it, it is a problem that we have to combat, their racism (the Chivas fans against Quiñones), we must be forceful in the message for the people. We are all equal, we are here to live together as a group. It is important not to let these things go overlooked”highlighted the technical director of the azulcrema team.
The Brazilian strategist also pointed out that he did not seek to provoke the local fans at the Akron stadium during the celebration of América’s second goal scored by Diego Valdés. “I have a way of celebrating players who score a goal or provide an assist, there was a great goal, I looked for it, the celebration was with Diego”pointed out the DT.
“I would never do anything to incite, there was no reason, those from Chivas were respectful to us, we did not feel intimidated but the taking of images does not help much and it seems that I am doing something. It’s not my way of doing things, I have a lot of respect for Chivas and the coaching staff that is there.”continued the South American coach.
Julián Quiñones speaks out
The forward of the Águilas del América, Julián Quiñones, published a message on his personal Instagram account in which he asked for respect for his daughters in the midst of the racist insults he received from the fans of the Chivas de Guadalajara and that have been extended to social networks.
“Anyone who has children knows that children are the most sacred thing, that’s just why I put this message. You can tell me whatever you want, but don’t mess with my daughters and I hope all the people who send me messages insulting my daughters never have to experience something like that.”wrote the scorer.
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