Russian Football Chief – Racism No Problem

© RIA Novosti . Ilia Pytalev / Go to the mediabankThe head of the Russian Football Union, Sergey Fursenko, claimed Thursday that none of the country's clubs has a problem with racism.
The head of the Russian Football Union, Sergey Fursenko, claimed Thursday that none of the country's clubs has a problem with racism. - Sputnik International
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The head of the Russian Football Union, Sergey Fursenko, claimed Thursday that none of the country's clubs has a problem with racism.

The head of the Russian Football Union, Sergey Fursenko, claimed Thursday that none of the country's clubs has a problem with racism.

“I'm absolutely convinced that we don’t have a single club with a racist orientation, or that has showed racial intolerance,” he said.

Fursenko’s claim comes less than a month after a banana was thrown at Congolese defender Christopher Samba at a match and days after racist chants were aimed at Spartak Moscow’s Nigerian striker Emmanuel Emenike.

Zenit St. Petersburg are the only leading Russian Premier League club never to have fielded a black player, and former coach Dick Advocaat said that racist fans prevented him signing players based on the color of their skin.

The Russian Football Union gave Emenike a suspended ban until the end of the season Friday after he showed the middle finger last month to visiting Dynamo Moscow fans, whom the forward accused of racist chanting during Spartak’s 3-1 derby win last month.

The man who threw the banana at Roberto Carlos in June case was detained by police but released without charge despite confessing.

 

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