Vinicius Junior wants La Liga President to 'take his words back' regarding piracy matter

According to sources who spoke to ESPN, Vinícius Júnior has urged Javier Tebas to take back a piracy accusation against the Real Madrid player after the La Liga president said the player unlawfully viewed the team's Champions League match against Liverpool.

Due to a hamstring injury, the Brazil international was unable to play. He posted an Instagram story that seemed to show him at home in Madrid, viewing the high-profile European match on a Brazilian TV station. Tebas said that Vinícius had broken the law by failing to watch the match on the station that owns the rights to broadcast the UEFA Champions League in Spain during a conference on audiovisual fraud in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The La Liga President said, "If it is in Madrid, and I think it was in Madrid, it is piracy. Access to the content to watch the Champions League in Spain must be done through Movistar Television. To watch this content, you need a VPN or a satellite dish pointed somewhere else. There must be active conduct that goes beyond the scope of Movistar. He was hacking the game."

Did Vinicius Junior really do piracy to watch the games?

The player does not utilize a VPN for watching football on Brazilian TV channels, according to a source who spoke to ESPN about Vinícius' staff getting in touch with La Liga directly. Rather, Vinícius owns an international plan provided by a Brazilian telephone operator that allows him to view Brazilian programs without any limitations, according to the ESPN source.

According to the source, the same service is also used by the player's employees, who are living and working with him. ESPN was informed by a La Liga source that Vinícius's agents had been in touch with them to talk about the situation. The La Liga president reacted negatively to the player's assertion that absolutely nothing had been done to address racism within Spanish football, which led to a prior social media altercation between Vinícius and Tebas.