Schweinsteiger's Ivory Coast comments spark racism debate
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Dear Bastian Schweinsteiger, you have been criticized for racism. As a football expert you have said something about the football style of the Ivorians ...
The veteran ace is a commentator on German television during the World Cup and described the Ivorians' game as "African football, a little wild."
Questions to members of the Senegalese team, racist release of former German international Bastian Schweinsteiger... These attacks burst into a World Cup mostly contested on Trump's US soil.
To comment on the match between Germany and Côte d'Ivoire for the World Cup on Saturday (20), the former German player Bastian Schweinsteiger stated, as a commentator for the ARD public broadcaster, that the Marfinians practice an African football, described by him as unorthodox, a little wild, and sometimes not so marked by tactics, according to the German website Deutsche Welle. The statement of the former midfielder generated accusations of r…
Schweinsteiger's Ivory Coast comments spark racism debate
Bastian Schweinsteiger's TV analysis of Germany's World Cup opponents Ivory Coast appeared to draw on racist stereotypes. For some observers, the comments are evidence that racist tropes are still common in football.
There are sometimes assumptions about "African" football in this country that lie far away from reality. Not least, this is demonstrated by the Ivory Coast's appearance against Germany – and a problematic debate on racism.
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