KOMPAS.com – The official community of Manchester City supporters in Indonesia, Manchester City Supporters Club Indonesia (MCSCI), gave a statement regarding the existence of individual The Citizens supporters from Indonesia who carried out racial attacks on the social media of Crystal Palace player Wilfried Zaha.
Crystal Palace winger, Wilfried Zaha, received a racist attack after becoming the star that brought his team to a 2-0 win over Man City, Saturday (30/10/2021).
After the match, Zaha revealed that he received a racist attack via a private message to his Instagram account.
This was known after Zaha uploaded via Instagram Story several personal racial messages that entered his message box.
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Based on the upload, it was observed that there was an unscrupulous Man City Indonesia supporter with the account name @ifiaramadani who also racially attacked the Crystal Palace player.
Regarding this matter, MCSCI moved quickly and gave an official statement on Sunday (31/10/2021) evening WIB.
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MCSCI stated, based on their investigation, the person was not a member of the Man City Indonesia supporters.
Furthermore, they are conducting an investigation into the racial attacks of these unscrupulous supporters.
“Manchester City Supporters Club Indonesia strongly condemns and does not condone racism in any form against anyone!‘ wrote MCSCI.
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“Regarding the incident that happened to Wilfried Zaha on his social media account, the central management of MCSC Indonesia immediately formed a team to investigate the racist perpetrator..”
“The investigation is being carried out and until the investigation when this post was published, the perpetrator is not related and affiliated with MCSCI or any MCSCI Chapter throughout Indonesia!“
“We warn all members affiliated with MCSC Indonesia to avoid this disgusting and unjustifiable racist behavior..”
“Be a wise and positive supporter! We stand with you @wilfriedzaha. Much love from Indonesia,” said the statement.
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Meanwhile, Wilfried Zaha also spoke up to respond to the racial attack that befell him via Instagram Story.
Zaha wants strict action on this problem so it doesn’t happen again.
The former Manchester United player himself is very concerned about racial issues that often occur in English football.
In February, Zaha said, he would stop kneeling before matches.
He judged kneeling before a game was not the right way to deal with racism.
According to Zaha, players should even stand up straight instead of kneeling which in his view seems like condescending.
The Man City vs Crystal Palace match itself is the 10th week of the 2021-2022 Premier League match.
The Citizens were forced to swallow the bitter pill at home after being defeated by Crystal Palace 0-2.
Wilfried Zaha performed brilliantly throughout the match and was able to contribute one goal for Crystal Palace in this match.
The goal made Wilfried Zaha the first Crystal Palace player to score 50 goals in the Premier League.
The brilliant action of the player from the Ivory Coast even forced Man City to play with 10 men in the second half.
The reason, Man City defender Aymeric Laporte got a red card after committing a professional foul to Zaha.
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