Several soccer players from Uruguayan teams recorded a video that they spread through their social networks
The video is started by Mathías Cardacio, from Defensor Sporting, who says: “Before I start watching this video, I want you to answer these questions.”
Agustín Oliveros, from Nacional, starts with the round of questions: “Do you do everything right? Do you always get the results you are looking for?”
Cristian Rodríguez, captain of Peñarol, asks: “Do you always win? Are all your days good?”
Then, Guzmán Pereira of Wanderers, expressed: “We are soccer players.”
Juan Álvez, from Fénix, adds: “But before we are soccer players, we are people.”
“Like you, like your brothers, like your mother or father,” says Ruben Bentancourt, Boston River forward.
“In every message that you leave from anonymity, it hurts me”, adds Fabricio Formiliano, from Peñarol.
“It hurts our families,” says Leandro Otormin of Montevideo City Torque. “And it affects us all,” adds Andrés Rodales, Captain of Rentistas.
“Because like you I am a person,” says Pablo Lacoste, a defender from Cerro.
Gabriel Neves, from Nacional, says: “We are human, we have feelings” and the Danubian Matías Jones adds: “This time we ask you.” “Before insulting us, harassing us or discriminating against us because we had a bad day” (Emiliano Alfaro from Liverpool) “take a minute to reflect” (Matías Arezo from River Plate). “You are hurting” (Guzmán Pereira), “you are hurting us and ours (Fabrizio Fernández de Progreso).
“Let’s take care of each other,” says Cardacio. “Let’s be responsible,” add Cebolla Rodríguez and Neves. The video is titled “Let’s get the ball down” and is accompanied by the hashtag “Let’s be responsible.”
It was disclosed this Monday night, five days after the harassment suffered by Peñarol forward Denis Olivera after his participation in the classic with Nacional on Wednesday of last week, and two days after Santiago García committed suicide in Argentina in a fact that shocked the world of football.
Let’s reflect together.
Let’s put the ball down.#Let’s be responsible. pic.twitter.com/9wrHH6uLyx– Mathias Cardacio (@mathiascardacio) February 8, 2021
