Saxony: Racist mobbing against players – team breaks off game

At the weekend the first round of the Ore Mountain Cup for SV Auerhammer was due. When it comes to a penalty shootout after a 2-2 after extra time, the team from Aue broke off the game because it “Massive racist statements on the part of the home fans “gave” against one of their players, as the club announced on social media. The case now ends up before the sports court. There it is decided how the game is to be assessed.

The chairman of SV Auerhammer, Konrad Schlegel, confirmed the incident to the “Free Press” from Chemnitz. “I was there myself, “he said. The horror about the Rabble Some home fans are big. “I’ve experienced a lot on football fields. But never anything like that.” SVA striker Samiou Tchagbele was insulted almost about the entire game over the entire game due to his skin color. “In the worst,” said Schlegel.

In addition to Tchagbele, which comes from the Ivory Coast, two players with Vietnamese roots belong to the Auerhammer. The team is often exposed to racist hostility, said Rabble. “Unfortunately we have often had to experience such hostility”. This time the team decided to set an example. “Because the unbearable insults simply didn’t want to stop on the viewer”. Captain, coach and functional team had previously announced to the line judge that the team left the space closed if the insults did not stop. “Unfortunately, there were massive racist statements on the part of the home fans in the penalty shootout,” Schlegel described the events.

In a statement after the game, the club condemned the incident: “DHe SV Auerhammer does not tolerate xenophobic or discriminatory statements. We condemn such behavior to the sharpest and make a decision for fairness, respect and humanity, “it says. The result is secondary.” The signal was more important to us, “said Schlegel of the” Free Press “.

And how did the SV Fortuna react Lower Würschnitz? There you play down the incident. There should be talks with SV Auerhammer. Mario Children, Chef of SV Niederwürschnitz, does not want to have noticed anything of the insults because he was too far away. “But unfortunately we can’t do anything for the spectators, it is difficult to prevent,” he said. The trainer stood in front of the team and did not want to comment on it.

Most recently, there had also been two racist incidents in the DFB Cup. In the game of Lokomotive Leipzig against Schalke 04, Christopher Antwi-Adjei was insulted with the N-word in the initial phase. After an interruption, the locomotive fans whistled him with every touch of the ball. The situation was different in the game of FC Kaiserslautern against the Brandenburg fifth division SV Eintracht Stahndorf, which was held in Potsdam. After a racist insult to a player of the Lauterner, the followers of both fan camps chanted against discrimination and called “Nazis out”.

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