Italian soccer coaching great Arrigo Sacchi recently opined that there were “too many black players” in Italian football. In the aftermath of the uproar, Sacchi vehemently denies charges of racism thrown his way.
British shock comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has angered government officials and residents in the town of Grimsby, Lincolnshire, in the U.K. by hiring “fat women” to play the roles of some of the townspeople in an upcoming comedy about the town’s soccer team.
FIFA, the organization that governs the World Cup, has decided not to revisit the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup to Russia and Qatar respectively. The group also announced that the extensive report prepared by an investigator into accusations
The British Football Association (FA), which runs English soccer, has fined Liverpool forward Mario Balotelli $39,000 and suspended him for one game because he posted an Instagram page of Super Mario headlined “Don’t be a racist” and partially captioned “jumps like a black man and grabs coins like a Jew.”
