As a child, the Sevillian footballer Edna Imade (24 years old) wondered why everyone was white around her and sometimes she wanted to be too. “Too black to be Spanish and too much Spanish to be from Nigeria,” says the ASAARI BIBANGG Actress and Comics, who also knows how to feel like this, in the minority. In this new Laliga VS videocast, shot at the Granada CF Stadium, both recite in a speech that goes beyond commonplaces and “typical questions”, as Bibang calls it, to speak both with depth and honesty of how to face the racism and the machine that have suffered and suffer again. For Imeaade, football, in addition to their passion since she was six or seven, is the way to save her family from the precariousness and the sufferings that saw them bear; For Bibang, the comedy was the ideal speaker from which to denounce the thousands of racist behaviors or gestures that still observe in society. And, if something is clear after listening to them, it is that sport and art have a fundamental power to increase awareness among citizens and improve the same society.
When he was pregnant with twins, Floren, Imade’s mother, decided to cross the Sahara from Nigeria to give them a better future. He played his life and almost loses it. Edna was born during the trip, in Morocco and with months she arrived in Spain. “I owe everything,” says Imade with devotion. So much so that his mother and brother are his main motivation to be successful in a career that requires that of a footballer.
Imade states that the best part of a brilliant year like the one that is going through this season, in which it is the second top scorer of the competition and the star that is resulting in a revelation team, the Granada CF, is above all to make the members of their family happy. And also to his companions, who are for Imade “as another family”; “If you lose the ball, I run to defend myself by his side; I love noting to laugh or lift their mood with a joke, we have a real union in the costumes.
Sorority, Bibang calls him, who claims that women in his surroundings “saved his life”. As an actress, the only roles they offered to him were of illegal immigrants who barely knew how to speak Spanish or as a prostitute, and the root of that discriminatory experience wrote a monologue and after his success he could make his way.
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Laliga, in the fight against racism
It is not possible in a stadium that does not know how to behave in him, says Imade, who also defends the role of institutions such as Laliga or League F when racism not only in the fields: they have won pioneering judicial phrases for hatred crimes against those who have poured racist insults from the stands; The sanctions are a deterrence so that no one is deceived: “Racism cannot leave for free”, both say.
The other field of action must do, they believe, with education: children have not been born racist, emulate the elderly, imitates what they see, and that is why it is so important that Initiatives such as Laliga VS Add the problem from a global approach. The change is possible and, as Bibang points out, there is evidence that we walk in the appropriate direction: “It is wonderful that my son, when he plays at EA Sports FC 25, can in a video game not only to choose female teams, if not playing with a player who looks like his mother”.
#Artehumanovsracismo
Like football, art is a universal language. For the fourth consecutive year, Laliga, at the hands of EA Sports, undertake the initiative vs racismoOn the occasion of the celebration of the International Day for the elimination of racial discrimination on March 21st. And in this fourth edition they wanted to have the urban artist Suso33. His colorful absences will serve to transfer the message of how every day in the fields of Laliga coexist different races and nationalities, making, according to sources of the organization, of this diversity one of its greatest strengths. An essential mission that the president himself, Javier Tebas, defines: “Eradicating any form of hatred, promoting respect, diversity and inclusion values. Sports must be a reflection of unity and coexistence between cultures.
Throughout the month of March, several actions will be performed: the hymn that Laliga consisting of racism will play in the stadiums and retransmission, the players will jump on the field on the 28th day of Laliga EA Sports and on the 31st day of Laliga’s hypermation with the commemorative shirt, clothing that will also be available from the same march 21 in the Sport EA video game. Rod for the Céspedes during the 29th day of Laliga EA Sports, the 33 of Laliga Hypermation and on the 24th day of the League F a special Puma ball, whose design is inspired by the work of Suso33. The best symbol of football for diversity and against hatred.
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