Racism in Europen Football (soccer)

[Shibby]

I am watching Real Sports and they are doing a segment on it. I never knew how much hatred some of the fans have for black people and players espeacially. They make a gorilla noise everytime they touch the ball and throw banana's at them. Absolutly insane.

[beefcake]

I watched a lot of soccer when I was in europe and never really even noticed anything like that. I'm sure it's only on certain occasions with the visiting teams since there aren't that many black players to begin with. I highly doubt that happens in france though. They probably showcase the couple times it's happened in order to make it seem like a lot. Kind of like how the media changes things to make it look different than it really is.

[JUICE]

that shits crazy how racism never ends. When are those people gonna realize that we are all the same.

[Scrumhalf]

It's the worst in Italy in the Serie A leage - one of the worst teams is Lazio. A neo-fascist party, the National Alliance owns 30% of the team. Look at the following link for a description:

http://flakmag.com/opinion/broke.html

Here is an exerpt:

The team’s fan base is generally drawn from Rome’s more affluent (and more conservative) outskirts, and the Ultras, sometimes also known as the Irriducibili (Unshakeables), form the most rabid and violent of the lot. Hyper-violent rabid Lazio fans akin to England’s hooligans, the Ultras claim their cross-town rivals AS Roma is, as one Ultra put it, a "team full of blacks, stands full of Jews." (Roma traditionally draws from Rome’s working class, immigrant and minority communities.) The club itself is reluctant to sign nonwhite players for fear of backlash from the Ultras, who have been known to provoke violence outside the stadium after matches.

Stadium behavior bears this out. The Ultras’ chants take a militant, dangerous tone: The letters of the team are sounded out to Nazi salutes. They carry banners with fasces and swastikas. Some are white supremacist flags, some are anti-Semitic or racist slogans, while some are banners praising war criminals like the slain Serb terrorist Arkan. Every time a black player touches the ball, jeers, racist taunts, monkey noises and worse descend from the Curva Nord, or Northern Curve, the traditional area in Olympic Stadium where the Ultras sit. In a stadium with a large police presence, not a single patrolman can be found: Stadium management and the police have ceded control of the Curva Nord to the Ultras. Although the club is working to shed this racist image, old habits die hard — the Ultras occasionally wave Palestinian flags, though obviously more as an expression of anti-Semitism than pro-Arab sentiment.

[Scrumhalf]

I watched a lot of soccer when I was in europe and never really even noticed anything like that. I'm sure it's only on certain occasions with the visiting teams since there aren't that many black players to begin with. I highly doubt that happens in france though. They probably showcase the couple times it's happened in order to make it seem like a lot. Kind of like how the media changes things to make it look different than it really is.

It's real, Beef... especially bad and endemic in Italy. See my post above.

[num1son]

When Khan last year was in the uefa cup they would make gorilla noises due to his looks and the women would chant at him because of his ways with various women,

SHibby, who was playin in this real sports segment?
I dont know racism is that bad now. hell a lot of guys in the bundisleaga are black and germany isn't very tolerant at all

K

[num1son]

Haha i called my dad bout soccer and said the same thing u were saying... some real sports program...

K

[Shibby]

It was Real Sports with Bryant Gumbal

http://www.hbo.com/realsports/storie...de.102.s2.html

[Timma]

I heard about this on the radio this morning. One time they had a sign that said this is our home the oven is yours.

[Shibby]

Actually it was "the name of the country is your land", the ovens are your homes.

[Timma]

Actually it was "the name of the country is your land", the ovens are your homes.

That's it.

[red_devil1469]

Don't watch much soccer but check out the Lazio soccer hompage.http://www.sslazio.it/index.aspx
A black guy right on the front.Although the eagle in their insignia looks very much like a WWII german Luftwaffe eagle.