La Liga chief apologises for rant about Vinicius Jr’s racism complaint

“I mean, to all those who have understood that this was an error due to the form, due to the time…I have to apologise,” he said, adding that it was not his intention to attack Vinicius and blaming “the heat of the moment”.

“I apologise to Vinicius and to anyone that understood that I was attacking Vinicius.”

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He said that he felt “impotent” to tackle racism in soccer as under Spanish law La Liga can merely detect and reporting racist incidents, urging legislative changes for it to have sanctioning powers to be able to fight racism more effectively.