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Racism incident in the DFB Cup
Whistle against Antwi-Adjei in Leipzig: misanthropic and not excusable
Leipzig.
Football can be so much, creates identity, builds bridges, lets crowds freaked out into collective ecstasy or dancing as at the European Championship last year. Again and again football
also shows a diffrent face, an ugly face of violence, homophobia, discrimination and, as on Sunday in the Leipzig Bruno Plache Stadium, from racism.
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That with Christopher Antwi-Adjei A kicker of FC Schalke 04 born in Hagen from the fan area of the 1. FC Lok was racistly insulted on the worst is a scandal. The fact that the professional turned to the impartial is not a sign of weakness, but one of the strength. Racism cannot be combated by ducking away, but by getting up. Antwi-Adjei did that.
The more shameful, all the more frightening is the reaction of parts of the audience: if it can be formulated in this context, the even greater scandal of this afternoon.
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Even if the Lok managers pointed out on Monday that the speaker announcement initiated by referee Max Burda was bad for technical reasons: Every fan with common sense must have been clear that an impartial man has not interrupted a game for several minutes and initiates an clarification (which in the rest of the level one of the three-stage plan of the DFB against discrimination represent).
The fact that Christopher Antwi-Adjei was loudly whistled with every corner and other ball contacts until the 120th minute is loudly. It is misanthropic, not excusable and the ugly face that stays on a sporty day (unfortunately).
LVZ
