Brazil and Real Madrid star Vinícius Júnior has agreed to join a new task force to tackle racism in soccer, FIFA president Gianni Infantino said Thursday. (More Football News)
Vinícius has been the subject of sustained racist abuse by fans in Spanish stadiums throughout the season, with little done by referees or soccer bodies to protect him.
That must stop, Infantino said in an Instagram post after he met the player at a Brazil training camp in Spain.
바카라There is no football if there is racism! So let's stop the games,바카라 Infantino wrote.
바카라We will also strengthen the engagement with players on this crucial topic, so I am glad Vinicius accepted to be part of a task force which will include other important players and will elaborate concrete and efficient measures to end racism in football once and for all.바카라
FIFA created an anti-racism task force in 2013 after a notorious incident of abuse suffered in Italy by AC Milan midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng, who is Black.
Boateng worked with the task force which FIFA shut down in 2016, months after Infantino was elected. FIFA said then the task force had 바카라completely fulfilled its temporary mission.바카라
Infantino said Thursday that more should be done to enforce soccer's current three-step policy to stop games when players are racially abused.
He also called on fans who aim racial abuse 바카라to be banned from stadiums across the globe.바카라
바카라We want to identify racists in stadiums and across social media. They are criminals,바카라 the FIFA leader said. 바카라The authorities need to take these people to court and we will say this to all of them: Racism is a crime.바카라
