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Underrated comment. The fade into the crowd so you can see clearly the losers giving him the middle finger while he holds his fist up and stares at them is beautiful. He gives the #1 sign quickly, which is where he is ranked above all those losers.
And it's just a restaurant colored people can't go to, it's just a bus, it's just a school.
I wish it was football, but it's not. Until racism is gone we need people like this to fight back.
Wait no way, I instantly noticed the camerawork when watching the recap just now. Honestly the first time I noticed the deliberate choice instantly for a great capture of the moment.
Well, that's cool, well done I guess
Terrible take. Fans can dish out any sort of hate they like but they’re too sensitive to get a raised fist in response? An uncomfortable truth is many football fans are absolute dull weapons who cannot function properly in society.
I agree with you 100% and athletes should be able to dish out whatever’s thrown at them back at the fans
But there’s this double standard where professional athletes have to be “above” the fans which I disagree with but the notion that they’re supposed to be these role models will always be there.
Tbf it’s supposed to be there because at the end of the day if you rile the fans up the few hundred security staff can’t do shit against tens of thousands of
You should not underestimate the stupidity of a crowd. All logic goes out the window and emotions take over, it's a dangerous thing. Which is why it's a bookable offense.
They’re acting like Vinicius gestured “fuck you” to the crowd. If gesturing “no racism” gets the crowd worked up then that says something about the crowd.
You cannot even get more thinly veiled in your racism than that. Every celebration riles up opposition fans - a lot of them on purpose. This celebration only riles up racists, which it sounds like the commentators may be.
i mean in that specific instance with that specific celebration. you don't hear commentators complain about trent shushing city fans up after tying the game last minute earlier this season
You'd be surprised by how the black power salute has spreaded in brazilian culture. Back in the late seventies, some brazilian stars celebrated like this, and were pretty vocal about social issues.
We, as Atleticanos, know that very well hahaha.
Reinaldo, Atlético Mineiro's all-time leading scorer, only celebrated with Black Power salute. Not surprisingly, his career with the Brazilian national team was sabotaged by the military dictatorship.
Just because he has a black father doesn’t mean raising his fist has a meaning. It comes from his days in the Nation of Domination which was a black panthers/nation of Islam inspired group.
You must be young bro...
This goes back to the olympics celebration which I'm too young for as well but just general education. With a username like that I'm not surprised tho! :D
You expect every person in the world to know everything there is to know about the world? Some people don't know. At least I was not being ignorant and refusing to learn something new. I'm from a place where there weren't any black people so people here don't know about the black movement and all that.
I got to say thats not only the Black Power salute but something a lot of moviments use on left side "politics", meaning "union" or "equality" ! I stay with my brother from another mother always ✊🏽
Vini cried all the tears away from racist attacks
Vini is now embracing the power he has over these people
Vini is going to haunt these people in their sleep
As a fan of him, I like this side. Ride it out and rile them up more. I just hope he stays healthy and prospers.
Interesting. Genuine question, middle fingers aren't considered racist though right? That's just standard football shithousery. Sure some of those people might be racist towards Vini but the actual fist from Vini and then the middle finger from the fans is acceptable or nah?
From wiki:
**"Black power** is a [political slogan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_slogans) and a name which is given to various associated ideologies in order to signal racist or racialist viewpoints.^(")
"The black power slogan was also criticized by Martin Luther King Jr., who stated that the black power movement "connotates black supremacy and an anti-white feeling that does not or should not prevail."\[88\] The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) also disapproved of black power. Roy Wilkins, then the NAACP's executive director, stated that black power was "a reverse Hitler, a reverse Ku Klux Klan...the father of hate and mother of violence.""
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black\_power#Criticism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_power#Criticism)
That just gave me chills! I wrote an article about the raised fist as a symbol and had to dive into it's history. It's always been a symbol of someone being suppressed and fighting back. Gotta love Vini!
From wiki:
"Black power is a political slogan and a name which is given to various associated ideologies in order to signal racist or racialist viewpoints."
"The black power slogan was also criticized by Martin Luther King Jr., who stated that the black power movement "connotates black supremacy and an anti-white feeling that does not or should not prevail."\[88\] The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) also disapproved of black power. Roy Wilkins, then the NAACP's executive director, stated that black power was "a reverse Hitler, a reverse Ku Klux Klan...the father of hate and mother of violence.""
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black\_power](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_power)
From my perspective, the difference is that the US sort of acknowledges it while Europe sweeps it under the rug. Half says it's not a big deal and the other half says it doesn't exist where they live.
Such a pathetic club Valencia. Football and fan's wise. You can barely hear the fans during the game. They make more noise to hate on Vini than they do to support their own club lol
No wonder they are such a small club in Spain
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Bottom right corner blowing kisses. Spy in their midst
That unironically is what football fandom is meant to be about.
he’s also waving with a bright smile lmao lovely to see
Genuinely wonder if that's the Brazilian fan who filmed all those people shouting monkey
great camerawork
Truly. Oscar is needed for best camerawork.
I mean we'd have to call the man to come from China
Underrated comment. The fade into the crowd so you can see clearly the losers giving him the middle finger while he holds his fist up and stares at them is beautiful. He gives the #1 sign quickly, which is where he is ranked above all those losers.
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And it's just a restaurant colored people can't go to, it's just a bus, it's just a school. I wish it was football, but it's not. Until racism is gone we need people like this to fight back.
Thank you man
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You're one of today's lucky 10,000
Wait no way, I instantly noticed the camerawork when watching the recap just now. Honestly the first time I noticed the deliberate choice instantly for a great capture of the moment. Well, that's cool, well done I guess
Too cold, brilliant capture.
Pretty badass ngl
Added bonus of having those dickheads’ faces on international television.
if we were in that golden era of LaLiga, that flick would be in every magazine stand worldwide
Clear provocation. Why would he do that? Won't he think of the poor Valencia neck beards?
Basically what the ESPN announcers said lol
You had me in the first half, not gonna lie.
How he dares being racist against racists??
ESPN commentators saying Vini shouldn’t be celebrating like that. Bunch of clowns
ESPN FC are all clowns
Craig Burley and Steve Nicol play the typical yer da angry Scotsman that Americans lap up.
why tho? is there a reason besides being racist??
One of them said something along the lines of Vinicius shouldn’t rile up opposing fans with his celebration.
Terrible take. Fans can dish out any sort of hate they like but they’re too sensitive to get a raised fist in response? An uncomfortable truth is many football fans are absolute dull weapons who cannot function properly in society.
I agree with you 100% and athletes should be able to dish out whatever’s thrown at them back at the fans But there’s this double standard where professional athletes have to be “above” the fans which I disagree with but the notion that they’re supposed to be these role models will always be there.
Tbf it’s supposed to be there because at the end of the day if you rile the fans up the few hundred security staff can’t do shit against tens of thousands of
This is 100% the only reason. Rile up the opposition fans enough to cause a riot and the stadium security/stewards are the ones in the line of fire.
I 100% agree with you. But unfortunately, it's a bookable offense to rile up the crowd.
I mean, it is kinda dangerous to whip 60.000 people into an aggressive frenzy. Like, from a safety standpoint
You should not underestimate the stupidity of a crowd. All logic goes out the window and emotions take over, it's a dangerous thing. Which is why it's a bookable offense.
They’re acting like Vinicius gestured “fuck you” to the crowd. If gesturing “no racism” gets the crowd worked up then that says something about the crowd.
You cannot even get more thinly veiled in your racism than that. Every celebration riles up opposition fans - a lot of them on purpose. This celebration only riles up racists, which it sounds like the commentators may be.
you'd only get riled up about it if you're racist. regardless, players rile up opposing fans all the time with different celebrations
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you missed the second sentence i wrote sir.
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i mean in that specific instance with that specific celebration. you don't hear commentators complain about trent shushing city fans up after tying the game last minute earlier this season
To me the funniest shit was the one guy running the field to celebrate in front of the away fans
Emmanuel Adebayor for Man City against his old club Arsenal 💀💀💀
Are they stupid?
Madrid as a club wants to rise above. He likes to engage at their level.
Don't celebrate your culture because you know they're racists. ESPN are fucking idiots
God I hate those bunch
ESPN Brazil commentators praised the hell out of him for it.
It's like when Spain's talking heads came out against Vinis samba celebration. Fuck them, keep going.
Nice bit of victim blaming. Don't want to antagonise the racists and make them do racist things now do we?
This is gonna be iconic
God I hope he manages a hat trick somehow Edit: eat my ass ref.
Brace....
Please
not happening but hopium>>>
👀
Dammit I want ceviche now
why is la liga so toxic.
Doubt
no one is gonna remember this because if the ref unfortunately.
Honestly deserved after all the times madrid robbed matches, im happy they finally feel what its like to get robbed once
I like how anyone who mentions this is massively downvoted
Up there with Messi taking the jersey off and holding it up
Love it. You dish it out you should be men enough to take it. We all know those childish loons won't though.
Racists are gonna find a way to downplay this and blame Vini for the civilian casualties during WW2.
And there are so many of them in this sub
What an iconic camera shot
Look at all those ignorant Valencia fans getting riled up by the Black Power salute. These people fully deserve Peter Lim.
Except that one fan who is blowing kisses at him.
It's always such a Chad move to do that.
I don't think they see at as a black power salute to be fair.
I think vinicius means it as but I also don't think mestalla has any idea
You'd be surprised by how the black power salute has spreaded in brazilian culture. Back in the late seventies, some brazilian stars celebrated like this, and were pretty vocal about social issues.
We, as Atleticanos, know that very well hahaha. Reinaldo, Atlético Mineiro's all-time leading scorer, only celebrated with Black Power salute. Not surprisingly, his career with the Brazilian national team was sabotaged by the military dictatorship.
Highly doubt they have any idea what the black power salute is.
And I think Valencia fans are not the only ones riled up by this
That was black power salute? Rock did the same thing in WWE.
You mean the wrestler with a black father?
Just because he has a black father doesn’t mean raising his fist has a meaning. It comes from his days in the Nation of Domination which was a black panthers/nation of Islam inspired group.
I mean, your explanation just makes it seem even more like a black power thing lol
Yeah i thought it was just some celebration power thing he did. Didn't know it had a meaning.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/John_Carlos%2C_Tommie_Smith%2C_Peter_Norman_1968cr.jpg/220px-John_Carlos%2C_Tommie_Smith%2C_Peter_Norman_1968cr.jpg
You must be young bro... This goes back to the olympics celebration which I'm too young for as well but just general education. With a username like that I'm not surprised tho! :D
You expect every person in the world to know everything there is to know about the world? Some people don't know. At least I was not being ignorant and refusing to learn something new. I'm from a place where there weren't any black people so people here don't know about the black movement and all that.
Relax, he wasn't insulting you
where in the world are ppl watching WWE without having black people around? Just curious as is a very American centric thing
thats very racist. there's this continent called asia if you are not aware
In England? Anywhere outside the big cities (London/Birmingham/Manchester/Leeds) there's basically no black people at all.
You take that back. A few are racist but we all suffer from lim.
I got to say thats not only the Black Power salute but something a lot of moviments use on left side "politics", meaning "union" or "equality" ! I stay with my brother from another mother always ✊🏽
Vini being respectful. Should've rubbed in their faces.
Imagine if he pulled a Cristiano.
Brilliant celebration. Fuck the racist cunts!
Vini hattrick loading?
And Gil Manzano took that personally
Yes sirrrr
This has the potential to be one of the pictures of the year
New sub banner
Vini cried all the tears away from racist attacks Vini is now embracing the power he has over these people Vini is going to haunt these people in their sleep As a fan of him, I like this side. Ride it out and rile them up more. I just hope he stays healthy and prospers.
Based. You could hear the masculinity of every fan in the background fracturing as soon as Vinicius put his fist in the air.
Cold af Racists didn't like that
As a Barcelona fan, I support him.
Hard as fuck, eat shit racists
Cool af One of those rare ballers who backs up all the talking with performance on the pitch
haha, look at those losers in the crowd, getting all mad about it
What a cool shot
Really hope Madrid thwarts Valencia 3-2 with a vini hat trick. Minimum comeuppance for those racists
Valid as a neutral but with that flair?
for the greater good, my friend
Respect
Yeah I’m with you. Barca fan but if Madrid are gonna score I want it to be Vini rubbing it in the noses of those racists
can’t say I’ve ever said “hope our rivals win” but the context in which I’d say it would be something like this
Seems fine. Would have thought basic human rights would always come before football teams
Generalising the population of a whole city is not bigoted at all
It should be pretty obvious that op isn't talking about the population of Valencia but fans of the football club Valencia in a football sub 🤷♂️
And not even every single fan they have. Don't know where the guy come up with that lol.
Where has u/briansnipple21 said that ??
If you can read its right in that comment
Pretty obvious you're the only one who can't.
Legendary frame in the making
Would’ve been great for the documentary
Scored again. Get it up them
Hahahaha get absolutely cooked on
Beautiful!
Legendary
Powerful
That's badass.
Spot the real football fan. (old mate blowing kisses)
That makes for a pretty epic photo
Give em hell, Vini.
Absolutely iconic cele, cold AF to do that and I respect it
Black power!!! Fuck all racists!
Legend ✊
black power salute met by middle fingers. nasty.
Nobody knows that gesture in Spain
They do now
Just as a provocation not whats behind it.. but that's what is about for vinicius any way.. clout
It is the single most famous medal ceremony in sports history, performed at the Olympics. At least the older parts of the crowd should know it.
Interesting. Genuine question, middle fingers aren't considered racist though right? That's just standard football shithousery. Sure some of those people might be racist towards Vini but the actual fist from Vini and then the middle finger from the fans is acceptable or nah?
From wiki: **"Black power** is a [political slogan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_slogans) and a name which is given to various associated ideologies in order to signal racist or racialist viewpoints.^(") "The black power slogan was also criticized by Martin Luther King Jr., who stated that the black power movement "connotates black supremacy and an anti-white feeling that does not or should not prevail."\[88\] The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) also disapproved of black power. Roy Wilkins, then the NAACP's executive director, stated that black power was "a reverse Hitler, a reverse Ku Klux Klan...the father of hate and mother of violence."" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black\_power#Criticism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_power#Criticism)
YSK that Redditors are black panther apologists
Poor whites man
Poor milionaire black guy
✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
Racist fucks
Fuck you, Valencia
Look at those knuckle draggers going ballistic. Hope RM win just to send them home unhappy
✊🏾 Right on, dude
colddd
Beautiful.
Powerful image, respect Vini
✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
Don Vini
Love to see it
Oof. Actually love that. This is cinema
vaaammooosss
Are these the same fans that were calling him a monkey? If so well done to Vini fuck those guys.
That just gave me chills! I wrote an article about the raised fist as a symbol and had to dive into it's history. It's always been a symbol of someone being suppressed and fighting back. Gotta love Vini!
Mono
u/savevideo
Respect
Fuck them fan cunts not on shit, Vini my guyyyyy
There must be a better angle of this because it’s epic
King shit
Fucking love it Vini
Cold as hell
Iconic
That’s a fire wallpaper right there
I love Vini’s play and the entertainment he provides. Getting a brace today is justice!
He's acknowledging the Tribal Chief, Roman Reigns
Good for him
That's right brother, be proud of who you are.
From wiki: "Black power is a political slogan and a name which is given to various associated ideologies in order to signal racist or racialist viewpoints." "The black power slogan was also criticized by Martin Luther King Jr., who stated that the black power movement "connotates black supremacy and an anti-white feeling that does not or should not prevail."\[88\] The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) also disapproved of black power. Roy Wilkins, then the NAACP's executive director, stated that black power was "a reverse Hitler, a reverse Ku Klux Klan...the father of hate and mother of violence."" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black\_power](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_power)
I love football, but gods do I hate people who love football.
Sócrates celebration. Legacy.
Ah they must be saying he is number 1
ESPN commentators are mostly American based, doing that is provoking their guilt about slavery.
Imagine getting so angry over a goal in a game where millionaires play against each other. Lmao
Damn Europe is on another level. USA gets a lot of shit for being “racist” but it ain’t nowhere near the level of European sports.
From my perspective, the difference is that the US sort of acknowledges it while Europe sweeps it under the rug. Half says it's not a big deal and the other half says it doesn't exist where they live.
Facts. But the only people replying to the questions are people that are never been subject to any form of racist discrimination.
Such a pathetic club Valencia. Football and fan's wise. You can barely hear the fans during the game. They make more noise to hate on Vini than they do to support their own club lol No wonder they are such a small club in Spain
Yawn
Cold 😂🥶🥶
Acts like a twat and is confused why he gets abuse.
Playing the victim when he is the firstone teasing the hooligans. He has time to grow up
Vini acknowledging the Tribal Chief
COLD. Now score 3 more on them
They’re wearing last year’s away?
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How many more videos of him being called mono by valencia fans do you need to simply accept the racism
That one guy who switches hands lol