The presenter accused the Argentine coach of committing racist acts against goalkeeping coaches during his time at Santos
The Sao Paulo court ordered presenter Neto and TV Bandeirantes to compensate coach Jorge Sampaoli with R$500,000 for moral damages. The Argentine sued Neto after the former player accused him, live, of committing racist acts against goalkeeping coach Arzul during his time at Santos.
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The decision of Judge Cassio Pereira Brisola, of the 1st Civil Court of Pinheiros, was published last Tuesday, 7. Earth noted that, in his statement, Arzul denied being a victim of Sampaoli’s racism, stating that both the coach and his technical committee treated Santos club employees well.
The judge stressed that Neto “did not practice good journalism by not confirming the truthfulness of the fact reported to him by a source”. Neto also allegedly failed to inform viewers of his program, spreading unwanted information fake news, to the detriment of Sampaoli’s reputation,’ Brisola understood.
According to the judge, Neto’s accusations against Sampaoli have ‘denigrated the coach’s honour’ in the eyes of the public. Brisola then ordered the presenter and the broadcaster to compensate the coach with R$500,000, as well as publishing a retraction stating that the Argentine “did not commit a racist act when he was coach of Santos”.
Both the former player and the broadcaster were also sentenced to pay procedural and legal costs, set at 10% of the value of the case, equal to R$50,000. Neto and Bandeirantes can appeal.
Read the sentence that condemned Neto and Bandeirantes:
“I consider the appeal partially founded, with a resolution on the merits, to condemn, jointly and severally, the defendants to pay R$ 500,000.00 (five hundred thousand reais), monetarily adjusted from that date, plus late payment interest of 1% per month, calculated by the date of the unlawful act (17 April 2023), pursuant to summary 54 of the STJ, as well as submitting a retraction consisting in the declaration that the author did not commit a racist act when he was coach of the Santos FC team”.
Understand the case
On April 17, Neto commented on the coach’s time at Santos in 2019. According to the presenter, Sampaoli was racist towards a club employee. “A guy who treats Arzul badly, who is black. And who is just like me, who is just like you and who is an incredible human being. This guy, Jorge Sampaoli, kept Arzul out of the locker room. He did a lot the people hired before him lost their jobs. This guy is disgusting,” Neto said.
At another point he also said that it would be a shame for Flamengo to choose Sampaoli to replace VÃtor Pereira in technical command. “You don’t give morals to people from your own country, then you give morals to a guy like this, who often treated people in such a racist way, in such a hypocritical way,” Neto said, during the program “Great Friends”
“That short boy right there. That idiot right there. It’s a shame, he’s a dick, he doesn’t know anything about football. It’s a shame that Flamengo hired a guy like that,” he said on the Band programme.
The art. 144 cp, used to sue Neto, specifies that “if slander, defamation or insults are inferred from references, allusions or phrases, anyone who feels offended can ask for explanations in court”. It is on this article that the Flamengo coach’s defense is based. “This procedure serves to bring to the attention of the judiciary that there has been a possible crime against honor,” explains Raphael Feitosa Fisori, in Estadão.
*with information from Estadão Conteúdo.
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