Ronaldinho has yet to play a single minute for Queretaro, but he is at the center of a racist incident by a former public official in his new city.
Carlos Trevino – Secretary of Social Development in Queretaro from 2006 to 2009 - published a rant on Facebook that referred to the Brazilian legend as a “monkey.”
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“I try to be tolerant, but I hate football and the idiotic phenomenon it produces,” Trevino wrote in a message that was removed shortly after. “I detest it because people flood the streets and it takes me two hours to get home. And all this to see a monkey … a Brazil monkey, but a monkey nonetheless.”
The club sent out a news release Sunday evening demanding that authorities take the appropriate legal steps against the Partido Accion Nacional (PAN) politician and apply the full force of the law against him.
Ronaldinho’s teammate Yasser Corona led the players’ backlash against Trevino’s message, posting a photo of himself with a banana, using the hash-tag “We are all monkeys” (#TodosSomosSimios).