European Football Championship
Racism incidents: FIFA boss turns out to help English
An English footballer publicly makes racist insults at the European Championship. Now FIFA boss Infantino also switches on. And the selection of the island announces a change.
After racist hostility and agitation by users on the Internet, FIFA President Gianni Infantino promised his help to the English footballers around Jess Carter. “We are behind Jess. We stand behind every player and everyone who has suffered from racist insults,” wrote the head of the World Association on Instagram.
Carter, the partner of the German national team goalkeeper Ann-Kathrin Berger, had previously made public that she had been racially insulted since the beginning of the European Championship in Switzerland. It was unacceptable to be attacked because of the appearance or origin, she said. To protect herself, she wants to withdraw from social media.
Team colleague: Online agitation is “getting worse”
The English Football Association announced that it would cooperate with the police in order to find those responsible for such hate crimes. Infantino said: “We offer our support with all other necessary measures and will also pass on data so that suitable measures can be taken against the perpetrators.”
Carter’s defense colleague in the English national team, Lucy Bronze, reported: “Especially in women’s football, online insults are getting worse.” The team discussed the topic before the tournament started. England’s striker Alessia Russo said that they stay away from social media because they caused too much damage.
English women no longer kneel before kick -off
In response to the latest incidents, the English women decided not to kneel before the kick -off. The Lionesses had so far done this in the European Championship games to point out racism. “It is obvious that we and football have to find a different way to act against racism,” said a team. Before the semi -finals against Italy on Tuesday (9:00 p.m./ZDF), the players will stop.
The team of selection coach Sarina Wiegman hopes to be able to concentrate on the sporting and the fight for the final. “All those behind this online poison have to be held responsible,” it said.
dpa
Source: Stern
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