VINICIUS JR has seen his ban rescinded after being sent off against Valencia.
The Real Madrid star was shown a red card after a bust-up between the two club’s players.
Vinicius Jr has seen his suspension for his red card against Valencia overturnedRex
GettyValencia will also have to close part of the stadium[/caption]
Vinicius, 22, saw red after VAR showed him catching Hugo Duro’s face with his arm.
Although the Valencia striker did not get any punishment for getting the Brazilian in a headlock moments before.
After the game, the Real Madrid star claimed Spain is a “country of racists”.
He reported abuse from home supporters during his team’s 1-0 defeat at the Mestalla Stadium.
Vinicius pointed out the alleged offenders to the referee, with the match temporarily halted for around nine minutes.
Los Blancos’ star winger sarcastically applauded and gave a peace sign to the home crowd as he left the field.
He will not have to serve the five-game suspension after the RFEF Competition Committee overturned it, however, it does insist that the red card was correctly given.
The committee released the following statement, which reveals that Vinicius was subject to horrific racial abuse from people in the stadium.
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On the red card the statement read: “However, after viewing the images provided by the VAR, the referee changed his criteria, leaving the yellow card without effect and showing him a red one.
“Such a decision would be determined by the omission of the SALA VAR of the entire play, without showing the aggression carried out seconds before by players 19 and 25 of the local team, who grabbed him by the neck, so that the expelled player, ‘in a desperate attempt to get the arm of the rival player off his neck, before the imminent risk of suffocation, he instinctively gets rid of the rival player’.”
“To all this is added that according to the information published in the press by the RFEF itself, the VAR referee would have been dismissed for cutting the images sent to the referee.
“It is a reiterated criterion of this Competition Committee, that the appreciation of a manifest material error in the arbitration act requires the contribution of evidence that unequivocally, beyond all reasonable doubt, proves well the non-existence of the reflected fact. in the minutes or its patent arbitrariness.”
Valencia will also be forced to a partial closure of the south stand Mario Kempes at the Mestalla Stadium.
However, the LaLiga side are set to appeal against the sanction, according to Cope.
Meanwhile, seven people have been arrested in Spain on suspicion of the racial abuse aimed at Vinicius Jr and hanging an effigy of the Real Madrid winger from a bridge near the club’s training ground.