Ghandi renounced violence, he still got killed in the end.
Vinicius not reacting to racial abuse would not work, it is like allowing a dog to steal the food from your table, if you laugh it away he does it again the next day.
I assume Cunningham in his Real Madrid days also got racially abused but back then nobody made a fuzz about it, during the years post war not much has been done to curb racism and now it seems to grow out of proportion, it has been tolerated for decades and we’re starting to see now where that leads to.
The players of La Liga should come together and demand a debat with La Liga, if they don’t want that they can go on strike. In all departments people go on the street and protest if something happens they don’t like or want to see changed. So why don’t do football players do the same? Isn’t there a players union or something? Vinicius was on his own yesterday, why was there no walk out? Courtois said he would have followed Vinicius if he had stopped playing, why did he not suggest it as an option to Vinicius?
In Belgium play is suspended when racial abuse is hurled at players and if the player mentions it to the ref.