Barca Blaugranes · Oct 22, 2020
Paper attempts to apologize for racist Ansu Fati comments
Photo by David S. Bustamante/Soccrates/Getty Images The Spanish newspaper ABC made headlines this week when they wrote their match report after Barcelona’s Champions League win and said that Ansu Fati’s pace was that of a “black street vendor fleeing the police.”
Given this is a blatantly incompetent and racist piece of writing, an apology was expected. We got some form of an apology from the author Salvador Sostres, but not an apology to Fati himself.
“As I attempted to highlight the beauty of Ansu’ movement, and his class as a young player, some expressions were interpreted as racial discrimination.