http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/sports/soccer/italian-soccer-official-who-made-racist-comment-still-expected-to-win-top-post.html?_r=0
http://sports.yahoo.com/video/hbo-real-sports-racism-european-050000500.html
Why the most popular sports in the world has the biggest problem racism. Considering that is 2014 FIFA is fighting a fight that it will never win. They Could place them banners in every soccer stadium in the world but it will never fix the problem. They need to go after the teams that allows these fans to attend the games and act crazy calling black player monkey. I was watching a Barcelona game about 4 months ago and while Brazil star Dani Alves was about to kick a corner kick a fan thew a banana at him, an indirect way of calling him a monkey, Alves just picked up the banana and ate it. FIFA has been campaigning for over 10 year to stop the name calling, throwing of banana and other racism in the sports. But nothing is getting done. This article shows how FIFA doesn't really care. After losing in the World Cup Italy top official made a public reference to "Africans as “banana-eaters.” If FIFA really wanted to stop racism and let these teams know they mean business they need to hit the teams and countries with heavy fines and suspension.
The First link is the article about the Italian official and the second is Real Sports with Brian Gumbel. He did a show about the racism in European soccer. He also did one 10 years ago and he talks to players about what has changed since then.
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