Tuesday, April 29, 2014

A racist fan hurled a banana at a Brazilian soccer star, and he reacted with sheer brilliance...

Racism isn’t usually associated with high levels of potassium and Vitamin B6, but that might change after last weekend.

FC Barcelona player Daniel Alves was about to perform a corner kick during an April 27 match against Villarreal when a spectator threw a banana at him – a racial taunt often leveled at players of African descent.

Alves could have ignored the slight. But in a stroke of "middle finger" brilliance, he instead picked up the fruit, peeled it and ate it:

“My father always told me, son, eating a banana prevents cramps LOL,” Alves wrote on Twitter after the game, “how did you guess Hahaha.”

On a particularly racist weekend in pro sports, Alves provided one of the few bright spots. Barcelona went on to win 3-2, a victory the Brazil native humorously attributed to the controversial incident: Full story...

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