Uruguay captain and PSG’s full-back Diego Lugano came on stage to claim that the racism controversy between Frenchman Patrice Evra and Luis Suárez has been nothing more than a «football argument», and praised his countryman for staying true to his principles.
Suárez was found guilty of racially abusing Manchester United defender Evra earlier in the season, and was widely criticised again last weekend for refusing to shake the France defender’s hand in their first meeting since the incident.
“Luis has gone through a few months he did not deserve”, Lugano said on his official website.
Likewise, the former Sao Paulo’s defender remarked that “Everyone in football knows it is a big circus. Take into account that England is historically a colonial country and racism is a sensitive subject, but we all know it has nothing to do with what happened between Luis and Evra.”
Furthermore, Lugano emphasized that Suárez “is the only innocent party in this situation. It was a football argument, and many false moralists and hypocrites have profited.”
To end, Lugano showed the kind of temper that gained him the nickname “El Gran Capitán”
“You have to have balls to do what Luis did on Saturday. He followed his principles. We live in a democracy, and if you do not want to greet someone, you do not do it, and less so if that person has made you experience some bad moments.”
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