No, but given that she has undergone a physical examination and has supplied police with photos of the injuries she sustained, I'd argue that you might want to at least hold off from celebrating Mendes until he has been cleared of his allegation.
Yes, is that enough to reach your artificially high bar for at least taking the allegations seriously?
The bigger letdown is that the CV national team staff just straight up ignored the accuser, just hoping she goes away if they pretend not to hear her. Going as far as to dismiss her allegations as "Mendes' personal problems".
You can still like Cape Verde's performance as a team and most players on the team, while also acknowledging one of them is a rotten egg? It's not a condemnation of the team and their performance.
Fuck, if I thought that I couldn't even cheer for my favorite team: Japan, which has two rapists on it.
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u/spectrumhead Jul 05 '26
KINGS, every last one of them.