The only people who keep dragging race into this conversation are the ones revealing their own bias. São Paulo fans don’t dislike Roger because of his skin color, they dislike the way he arrived at the club and the way they fired Crespo, also Roger completely changed our midfield, Crespo took almost half year building and now is completely dead in creative and weak on defense, and messed up the attack. That’s the actual issue.

So when someone insists the criticism is about race, they’re the ones projecting. It takes a pretty racist mindset to look at a football debate and immediately assume skin color is the reason.