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Moreno on Mourinho's Vini Jr. suspension comments: He earned that red card
The show discusses Vinicius Jr.'s four-game suspension for pulling an opponent's hair and Jose Mourinho's comments about it. Luis Garcia says Mourinho is protecting his player but Vinicius made a mistake; Moreno says Vinicius earned it, calls Mourinho's remarks deflection, and argues Vinicius also plays a part in the hostility he faces.
- If he were Vinicius, he would not be at Real Madrid right now; Vinicius should go to clubs and stadiums that truly appreciate him — He believes Vinicius is not properly appreciated or respected
- Mourinho is protecting his player and his team, and he would do the same in that position — A coach should defend his players and club to the end; Mourinho has done similar things at other clubs
- Vinicius did make a mistake and should accept the punishment; not everything is against him — The same mistake would be punished whether it was Raphinha or Roberto; it gets magnified only because it is Vinicius
- He wants to see the focused Vinicius, not the behavior he shows when he loses focus — Vinicius is a fantastic player but needs to change some of his behavior
- Vinicius earned the red card and suspension; it was not made up by referees or outside forces — The video clearly shows he pulled someone's hair, so the evidence is clear
- Mourinho saying Vinicius should go to clubs and stadiums that truly appreciate him is nonsense and trash, classic deflection — It shifts attention away from Vinicius's own actions; other stadiums should support their own teams first
- The hostility Vinicius faces does not happen in a vacuum; he plays a part in it — He antagonizes fans, referees, and opponents; it does not happen to Roberto because Roberto did not pull someone's hair; Moreno also condemns racist behavior
On ESPN FC, Stevie Nicol, Luis Garcia and Alejandro Moreno react to Jose Mourinho's comments that if he was Vinicius Jr. he would have forced an exit from Real Madrid. ✔️ Subscribe to ESPN Unlimited: https://plus.espn.com/ ESPN ESPNFC
Transcript
Real Madrid have got their own game against a side from Seville tomorrow. It's Sevilla at the Bernabo and then for Real Madrid, this is how things look ahead. They've got Leipig who didn't have the best of days today. We'll get to that later in the Champions League and then of course they have to go to the camp now to face this version of Barcelona. Jose Mourinho has been talking ahead of this game. In fact, he sarcastically said that he thought it would have been a longer suspension than four for Vidy Judia. Yet, we have been hearing from Jose Mourinho ahead of this game. He actually said this as well about Pis adversarismo. moral reason. Okay. Obviously, Luis, he's very much sticking up for his player here and supporting him. But were you surprised to see him say this that he wouldn't be at Real Madrid if he were Venicious right now? >> It's a way of seeing it. is a way of explaining and I send a message to support each player and we have to understand and I mean if I will be in that position I will do exactly the same my players my team my club I'm going to defending until that I'm out and that's the way it is and if if I'm out probably I will say something different like it happened not long ago when he was managing a different team. So this is the the way that you have to deal with these things. What I'm curious is that that he he got it wrong. I mean, Ben, you know, made a mistake and something these things happening in football and you did it, you do the wrong thing. You behave it in a in a in the in the in a moment where you should be more calm and you should understand the situation in a way that no one wants to to to see it. No one wants to to feel it and no one wants to be in that situation and you have to understand that some consequence are going to happen. Not everything is against Venicious Jr. If you try to to make that mistake, it doesn't matter if you are Venicious Jr., if you are Rafinha, if you are Roberto, it doesn't happen. It's a mistake and you have to understand it and grab. But because it's Venicious Jr., everything has become once again something about about him. Um, yeah, it's a way of seeing it. I I don't agree. I think it was a mistake and it has to be like this because he's a player the same like another player and we'll have to weigh what happen with Venicious Jun in the future. What I would like to see is the player that he is. Fantastic kid as Mourinho just mentioned. Fantastic player when he's on the field and he's focused when when he's out of focus when he's not being important into the game. We've seen behaves like this. So, um let's hopefully one day we see some um behave from Venicious Jr. in a different manner. >> My question really would be and it's something along the lines of what Luis is mentioning there is that did Stevie pull somebody's hair? Did I pull the hair? Was it Luis Garcia? Was it you that pulled the hair? No, it was Vinnie that pulled the hair. This didn't just come out of the blue. It wasn't like the referee says, "You know what I'm going to do today? I'm gonna give Vinnie Jr. a red car just because I feel like it." No, he earned it. He did it. He did it. The video shows it very clearly. And so there is evidence against Vinnie Jr. So this this is not something made up by the referees. This is not some something made up by Teas. It has nothing to do with the Negrada case. None of that. None of that. Vinnie Jr. pulled somebody's hair and so therefore he got the suspension that he got. Simple as that. He earned it. As for Jose Mourinho saying that Vinnie Jr. should have gone somewhere to clubs and stadiums uh visiting stadiums that really appreciate him. Nonsense. 100% nonsense. Trash. Don't listen to any of it because it's a rhetoric. It's a narrative that he's trying to put out there. It's this is classic Mourinho and deflecting the attention. Let's go talk about th that and let's not talk about this. Truth of the matter is you're asking other stadiums to appreciate the greatness and the joy and the happiness of Vinnie Jr. rather than support their own teams. Respect the other player rather than support their own team. You're acting as if Vinnie Jr. just dances around the field and just does his own thing and doesn't engage with other fans and doesn't uh antagonize other fans or other referees or other opposition. Look, I don't condone some of the behaviors in in some of the visiting stadiums that they've had uh towards uh Vinnie Jr. and some of their racist behavior. I don't condone any of that. But what I would say is Vinnie Jr. plays a part in this. He it it doesn't happen in a vacuum. It doesn't happen. And the reason it doesn't happen to some of the players that Luis just mentioned there, including Roberto, I don't know who Roberto is, but Roberto was involved in the in in the conversation. It doesn't happen to Roberto because Roberto is not pulling somebody's hair. Vinnie did. Vinnie did it. Not me, not Stevie, not you, not Luis. Vinnie did it. And therefore, that's why he's getting the suspension, not because he's not respected or appreciated in other stadiums. >> Yeah. He won't be pulling any hair in the Sevilla game tomorrow because he will not feature in that game, but we will have it for you. we will be covering it. Thank you so much for being with us, Luis Garcia. We look forward to talking to you again very soon.