Strong accusation of Brazilian Olympians against the soccer team: “They are not part of the team and they do not care”

Brazil closed a spectacular performance in Tokyo 2020 with a total of 21 medals, seven of them gold, which meant a new record for the South American nation. The final harvest was seven golds, six silvers and eight bronzes, breaking the historic mark of 19 medals (7-6-6) achieved when it hosted at Rio 2016. But glory is not synonymous with peace.

One of the gold medals was won by the soccer team, which beat Spain 2 to 1 in the final. As they stepped onto the podium, the players celebrated with their shirts on, rather than the apparel designed by the team. Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) that all the athletes wore during each award ceremony.

“The Brazilian Olympic Committee repudiates the attitude of the Brazilian Soccer Confederation (CBF) and the players of the soccer team during the award ceremony of the men’s tournament. At the moment, the Committee’s energies are fully focused on maintaining the work that resulted in the best Brazilian participation in the history of the Olympic Games. For this reason, only after the end of the Games, the COB will make public the measures that will be taken to preserve the rights of the Olympic Movement, other athletes and our sponsors, “the body said in a harsh statement.

It is that the image of the soccer players with the jacket tied at the waist was taken as an offense by those who manage the Brazilian Olympic sport and even by some athletes, such as Bruno Fratus. The swimmer who won the bronze 50 meters freestyle in Tokyo used social media to express his condemnation. “The message (from the soccer team) was clear: they are not part of the team and they do not care. They are also completely aligned and disconnected from the consequences that this can generate in countless athletes who are not millionaires like them “, Held.

Bruno Fratus he hung the bronze medal in the final of the 50 free with a time of 21.57 seconds. The current runner-up in the world in this distance, was 50 hundredths behind the American Caeleb Dressel, who won the victory with a mark of 20.07, a new Olympic record. For its part, Canarinha on Saturday she was proclaimed two-time Olympic champion by beating Spain in the final.

Brazil finished in twelfth place in the medal table as the first representative of Latin America for the second consecutive Games. Behind were Cuba with 15 medals (7-3-5) and Ecuador with three (2-1-0). The Brazilian record was registered despite the fact that some athletes called to win medals, such as the surfer Gabriel Medina and the beach volleyball teams, as well as the men’s volleyball team, left Japan blank.

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