Vinícius’s attitude in the match against Colombia will make him miss the quarterfinals of the Copa América against Uruguay. The Real Madrid player elbowed James Rodríguez and received a yellow card, his second in the group stage, an action that has not been well received by Brazilian fans and journalists.
«Vinícius needs to calm down. He has received avoidable yellow cards. We need to have a conversation with him. He wants to be the protagonist and is confusing being the protagonist with picking fights with everyone. He needs to be the protagonist by playing with the ball,» a journalist from the Brazilian network Jovem Pan said.
Another colleague from the same media outlet stated that Vinícius did «very little of what he is capable of» with Brazil: «He was bad against Costa Rica, and also today (Colombia)… not even a shot on target.»
«The yellow card Vinícius received today (against Colombia) is something a youth player would get,» another UOL journalist added, while ESPN accused the forward of making «wrong decisions that he wouldn’t make with Madrid.»
«The yellow card was cheap, in my opinion. He is out of the quarterfinals due to his own irresponsibility and not because of a conspiracy by Conmebol. If Neymar did what Vini did in both matches, the criticism would be harsher. But it’s Vinícius, who we all like in the country…,» complained columnist Arnaldo Ribeiro.
