The Issue of Race has been present in the World's most popular game Football (Soccer) for a long time. At games with big time clubs; every time an Black player touches the ball, monkey chants are directed towards the player. Not just that the chants happen but extremists such as Neo-Nazi's and Ku Klux Klan come to these matches as well chanting and yelling racial slurs. This problem has been spotted in many big time Football (Soccer) cities and countries such as Barcelona, Liverpool, Germany and Italy. Samuel Eto'o, a striker for FC Barcelona in Spain is a victim of these acts of many crazed fans, for example; in February of 2005 in a match with Real Zaragoza, Eto'o heard those monkey chants and slurs toward his character as a Native of Africa. Fellow Barcelona teammate Thierry Henry, and S.L. Benfica defender Marco Zoro have also been targets of racism and have spoken against it. In the Modern world with all the advancements we have, it amazes me how fans act sometimes towards a different race, at a Football match, I want to be able to watch without hearing racial slurs to my favorite player most who are the star player for their clubs. FIFA has finally decide to Show Racism the Red Card with new punishments for clubs whose fans show racism, but many believe the FIFA or UEFA are not doing as they preach for incidents have been reported but no punishments were given and that the people at big offices are ignorant.
It is amazing that some people would actually threaten a Player with Racial blabber just because they are of African origin. Let them play this wonderful game without the worry of racists on their sides. We need to Give Racism the Red Card.
1 comments:
I've been around a while and had never heard that this was going on. It is bizzare to think that whole groups of people could act this way, and that not much has been done about it. Bringing it to everyone's attention is very helpful. I personally think that teams should boycott various soccer stadiums where this occurs. Then the stadium and soccer officials will maybe do something.
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