Former Gaviões vice-president outlines anti-racism plan with Boca fans | OneFootball

The former vice president of Gaviões da Fiel, known as Pulginha, spoke about an initiative being developed in partnership with La 12, Boca Juniors’ main organized supporters’ group, to promote actions to combat racism in the stands. According to him, the proposal goes beyond the traditional campaigns carried out by football organizations and seeks to encourage dialogue directly with the fans.

According to Pulginha, the idea has been discussed internally within Gaviões for a few years and gained momentum after successive cases of racism recorded in South American football. The former director revealed that the meeting with La 12 representatives served to share the project and begin a joint effort between the two supporters’ groups.

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“Regarding the anti-racism campaign, we’ve been thinking about this for a few years now. Every case is upsetting, every case that happens sparks internal debate, and we have always reflected on doing something in the stands. Not those anti-racism campaigns where the federation or the CBF puts up a little banner and doesn’t create a debate in the stands, with the fans themselves.

We already have this idea, we are already developing this project, and it is already being put together. And our idea was to share this with La 12 so that both groups could help drive the project worldwide, because the campaign really is already beyond South America.

So, this is the beginning of behind-the-scenes work, but their idea here, Gaviões’ idea, is to deepen a respectful dialogue with them. It is an important point, which is why they are at the celebration. We took the opportunity to share ideas from the stands, and they agreed right away. So, we are going to come up with many plans with La 12 to debate this issue in the stands.”

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