"The 45-year-old, who made over 300 appearances for Benfica and won 44 caps for his country, wrote on social media: "This shirt is very big, I love Benfica, it's my second skin. You have to be worthy to wear the sacred mantle. This incident gets worse because it's a lie... football is won in the race, in the fight... It was a racist act, yes and I'm ashamed of it.""
"I told [Vinicius], when you score a goal like that you just celebrate and walk back. When he was arguing about racism, I told him the biggest person in the history of this club [Eusebio] was black. "This club, the last thing that it is, is racist. If in his mind there was something in relation to that, this is Benfica.""
Gianluca Prestianni is accused of directing a racial slur at Real Madrid's Vinicius Jr shortly after Vinicius scored the match-winning goal. Prestianni denies the allegation and said his accusers were inventing things. Former Benfica captain Luisao condemned the conduct as racist and expressed shame, emphasizing club pride and standards. Benfica released video footage they claim shows no Madrid player could hear the alleged remark, though the clip shows Kylian Mbappe speaking with Prestianni before Prestianni covers his mouth. Manager Jose Mourinho refused to criticise Prestianni and said he remained independent between the differing accounts.
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