Raheem Sterling welcomes ‘massive step’ after players take a knee before Premier League restart
Manchester City forward Raheem Sterling says players taking a knee before the Premier League restart was a “massive step”
Mesut Özil: Is it because I’m a Muslim?
Arsenal star’s shock retirement from international football has Germany talking about race and identity in an era of rising nationalism
Is Neymar Black? Brazil and the Painful Relativity of Race
By Cleuci de Oliveira | NY Times Years before he became the most expensive player in the world; before his Olympic gold medal; before the Eiffel Tower lit up with his name to greet his professional move from Barcelona to Paris, Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior, the Brazilian forward known to the world simply as […]
Yaya Toure says Pep Guardiola has ‘problems with African players’
Yaya Toure has accused Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola of having “problems with African players,” and questioned whether his limited playing time under the Catalan was because of his skin colour. Toure, who made just one start in his final Premier League season at the Etihad, said Guardiola would “never admit [to not liking African […]
World Cup 2018: Being black in Russia –
Less than 1% of Russia’s 144 million people are black.
Over the years, human rights organisations have reported numerous racist attacks. What is life like for those who are black and Russian, especially ahead of next month’s World Cup and influx of foreign visitors?
BENZEMA SAYS DESCHAMPS HAS GIVEN IN TO “A RACIST PART OF FRANCE”
Karim Benzema says the decision to leave him out of the French squad for Euro 2016 came because boss Didier Deschamps “bowed to the pressure of a racist part of France”. 28-year-old Benzema’s place has been in serious doubt since he was implicated in a criminal plot to blackmail former international teammate Mathieu Valbuena over a […]
WHY ARE THERE NO BLACK COACHES IN MLS?
Hylton Dayes is the men’s soccer coach at the University of Cincinnati, and one of only eight black coaches in all of Division 1 soccer. But when Dayes and his assistant Dan McNally, who is white, are introduced in new settings it’s often assumed that McNally is the one in charge. “I’m used to it […]
‘Too many blacks’ in Italian soccer, says country’s former World Cup coach
Former Milan coach Arrigo Sacchi claimed Monday that Italian soccer “has no dignity or pride” because there are “too many blacks” and “foreigners” in top clubs’ youth teams. In yet another example of racism in Italian soccer, Sacchi hit out at the number of foreign players and non-ethnic Italians playing for Italian clubs at this […]
For Algeria, football remains a fault line with France
In April 1958, a few months before the World Cup, two members of the French national team snuck across the border to Italy, and from there to Tunis. For a few days, no one knew where they were. Then they appeared at a press conference alongside other professional footballers who had also left, undetected, from […]
Black identity in Brazil
Before teams representing their countries from around the world arrived in Brazil, the country’s president, Dilma Rousseff, took the opportunity to label 2014 the “anti-racism World Cup.” The declaration came after a wave of racist incidents in soccer around the world targeting Black players, many of whom are Brazilian. While it’s a well-intentioned gesture and […]