german footballers Yousoufa Moukoko and Jessica Ngankam received racist insults on their respective social networks after each missed a penalty in their team’s 1-1 draw against Israel in their U21 European Championship debut.
Many users have put monkey emoticons and racist comments on the latest Instagram posts of black soccer players. whose penalty is kicking they were stopped by Israeli goalie Daniel Peretz.
“If we win, we’re all German, if we lose, we’re black, then the monkey comments will come. Things like that don’t belong in football,” Moukoko said after seeing the comments.
Moukoko forcefully responded
“These are helpless people. We are all the same, we share the same blood. You have to fight these people. They are idiots,” Moukoko said, according to various German media.
“I also told Jessica not to lower her head. We are a team, we want to play football,” concluded Moukoko.
The German coach defended them
A condemnation of the racist insults also expressed by German coach Antoni Di Salvo.
“It’s absurd when people comment anonymously on the internet and post racist insults to our boys. It’s not acceptable and I want to protect my players, who want to play for Germany , They are Germans, who give everything for the country and for themselves. I’m disappointed”the technician said in a press conference.
Source: La Verdad
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