Racism scandal rocks Russia ahead of 2018 football World Cup A new racism scandal has rocked Russian football in the run-up to the World Cup – and anxious Moscow authorities are taking it seriously. The idea of fans targeting black players with monkey chants is haunting Russian football chiefs heading into the June 14 to July 15 celebration of the ‘beautiful game’.
But racism reared its ugly head on Tuesday when French players Ousmane Dembele and Paul Pogba were targeted during France’s 3-1 friendly victory over Russia in Saint Petersburg. An AFP photographer heard imitation ape noises aimed at Barcelona forward Dembele, while internet users reported similar abuse from sections of the 50,000 crowd targeting Manchester United’s star Pogba.
Russia’s history of all forms of discrimination stretches back to its Soviet era and is rarely tackled head on. Critics say it is only being fomented by a mix of nationalist and socially conservative Kremlin ideology that at times borders on xenophobia. Lebedev further appealed to Russians’ sense of patriotism and pride in “our nation’s prestige”.
Racism is especially closely associated with football because of the right-wing hooligans and club “ultras” attracted to the game. The scourge swept across Europe and was especially severe in countries such as England and Italy between the 1970s and 1990s.
This hatred spilled onto Russian football stadiums in the last two decades as clubs began signing African and Latin American players. One of the starkest episodes saw Brazilian legend Roberto Carlos walk off the pitch in disgust after a banana was thrown his way in 2011.
There's be more riots over that than over banning "hate speech"
Noah James
A mere 10 years ago, the French were doing this themselves. The only people who still care about soccer in Western Europe are niggers, sandniggers, or zogdrones.
James Price
They are behaving it's a soccer game.
Wyatt Harris
Indeed. Check out this (((ESPN clip))) from 2006 talking about Spaniards throwing bananas at nigger players and also muslim and black immigrants.
Justin Wood
Niggers can't take the bantz. Yet more proof that Russia is our greatest ally.
Alexander Morgan
Greatest ally when their team lost 1-3 to France while Mbappe and Pogba, two black players, smashed them?
It's one thing if Russia were running circles around them but they got completely outplayed. What kind of greatest ally gets BLACKED like that?
Sad!
Elijah Johnson
1. Reddit spacing 2. No one gives a fucking about soccer. 3. Winning or losing a stupid game does not have an effect on whether someone is an ally or not.
Dominic Green
There is something to be said with how France has manipulated the eligibility rules of the game, especially when it comes to how their squads were looking from 98 onwards. Patrice Evra, Claude Makelele, Patrick Viera, Marcel Desailly, Lillian Thuram are all players who should've played at the places were they were born but for one reason or another, France were able to get them to play for their country. In Thuram's case for instance, his home country called Guadalupe wasn't recognised by FIFA as a footballing nation, while Viera was given French citizenship because his grandfather served in the French army.
Nathan Green
Pretty sure it's just a wordfilter.
Cameron Young
1.Don't use Reddit. 2.Then why comment on something you clearly don't care about? The niggers handled the bantz and beat our greatest ally quite handily. 3.Then why did our greatest ally decide to host a stupid game tournament that will be watched by hundreds of millions around the world? Soccer is the best sport in the world and the only ones who don't want to be seen to care is the US, since they got knocked out of the qualification stage by Trinidad and Tobago. It's quite sad really. Imagine getting blacked in front of the whole world by a team with very limited resources compared to the US.
The only reason you don't care is because you're not the best at it.
Logan Reed
In simplest terms football games are the accepted venue for Europeans to vent international and regional anger, hatred, and a whole range of other negative emotions. As long as it's kept to insulting and derogatory remarks/chants etc nobody should give a shit about it - it's natural and healthy social behaviour. If it does go beyond that then it can be a little more troubling, but as long as injury and property damage is minimised that's not too bad. Before you start criticising this or saying you think it's retarded I have two words for you to consider. Black. Friday.
Colton Wilson
That's pretty offensive to apes.
Robert Perez
Soccer is almost as gay as you are, and that's saying something.
Hunter Bennett
keep telling yourself you're straight, you cum gargling fagaloon,
In the second half of the 19th century, my home city of Manchester, UK, was gripped by an epidemic of youth gangs and knife crime. Large parts of the city were unsafe, as pedestrians could easily be caught up in fighting, and were often randomly attacked. But during the 1890s, a small number of enlightened people realized that the youths needed to be offered other outlets for satisfying their psychological needs other than gang membership and violence. They set up "working lads" clubs’ throughout the city, which gave the poorest slum youths access to sport and recreation. This led to a new "craze" for football (soccer) that spread rapidly through the city. (Indeed, it was during this decade that Manchester’s two famous modern soccer teams—Manchester United and Manchester City—were originally established.) As a result, youths who had previously fought against each other in gangs were soon "fighting" each other in football teams, both in "street football" and in organized games through the lads’ clubs. This suggests that the psychological needs which had given rise to gang membership and conflict, were now seemingly being channeled into sport—bringing a massive reduction in actual conflict and violence.
Jaxon Ortiz
What color is your wig?
Jackson Gonzalez
The same as your mom’s when I cum inside her and produce more niglets
