Vincent Kompany tears into Jose Mourinho for his response to Vinicius Jr race row

Vincent Kompany says Jose Mourinho made a “enormous mistake” in suggesting Vinicius Jr had prompted the conflict with Gianluca Prestianni that resulted in allegations of racism in direction of the Brazil winger.

Benfica ahead Prestianni is accused of calling Vinicius Jr a “monkey” in the course of the Champions League sport towards Actual Madrid on Tuesday evening. The incident occurred shortly after Vinicius had scored a beautiful aim to place the guests forward, after which he celebrated by the nook flag.

Mourinho mentioned after the sport: “I instructed him that if you rating a aim like that you simply simply rejoice and stroll again.” He additionally claimed: “There’s something unsuitable as a result of it occurs in each stadium. Each stadium that Vinicius performs, one thing occurs. At all times.”

Kompany rubbishes Mourinho’s argument

Bayern Munich boss Kompany – one in every of simply two black managers within the Bundesliga – didn’t conceal his disdain for what Mourinho mentioned.

The previous Belgium defender mentioned: “Jose Mourinho has principally attacked the character of Vini Jr by bringing in the kind of Vini’s celebration to discredit what he was doing at that second. It was an enormous mistake by way of management.”

Kompany additionally dismissed Mourinho’s declare that Benfica can’t be thought-about a racist membership as a result of truth one in every of its most celebrated gamers is Eusebio.

He added: “On prime of that, Mourinho talked about the identify of Eusebio. He mentioned Benfica can’t be racist as a result of their finest ever participant was Eusebio. Are you aware what black gamers needed to undergo within the 60s? Was he there to journey with Eusebio each away sport and see what he went by?”

Mourinho continues to be a ‘good particular person’ – Kompany

Kompany made clear, nonetheless, that he nonetheless believes Mourinho is a “good particular person”.

“I’ve met 100 individuals who labored with Jose Mourinho. I’ve by no means heard somebody say one thing unhealthy about Jose,” he mentioned. “All his gamers love him. I perceive the particular person he’s, I perceive he fights for his membership. I do know deep down he’s a superb particular person. I don’t want to guage him on that. However I additionally know what I’ve heard. I perceive what he’s carried out, however he made a mistake. Hopefully it gained’t occur once more sooner or later, and we are able to transfer on collectively.”

Kompany sides with Vinicius

UEFA is investigating the claims Prestianni used a racist slur towards Vinicius Jr. The Argentine strenuously denies the allegations.

However Kompany made clear whose facet he’s on.

“Once you watch the motion itself and the way Vini reacted, that response can’t be faked,” Kompany mentioned of the best way the participant ran to the referee. “You may see it was an emotional response. I don’t see any profit for him to go to the referee and put all this distress on his shoulders. In that second he noticed that it was the correct factor to do.

“Kylian Mbappe usually all the time stays diplomatic, however he was very clear about what he noticed and heard. Then there’s the Benfica participant who was hiding what he was saying in his shirt. Within the stadium you possibly can see there have been individuals [Benfica fans] doing monkey indicators, it’s within the video.”