Racism in Soccer
By Silvestre Mora, Kevin Zamora and Bryan Chicaiza
As you may have heard some soccer players are being discriminated against because of their skin color or race which is very unfair and disrespectful. For example, you might have heard about the incident when Dani Alves got a banana thrown at him in 2014 based on BBC.com.
According to USA TODAY, police “questioned a soccer fan who was arrested after being seen on camera at Manchester City's stadium appearing to racially abuse Manchester United players by imitating a monkey.” In another example, there is an article from Italy’s frontrunning newspaper Corriere della Sera that says “Black Friday” and has two black soccer players on the cover. The cover includes soccer players Chris Smalling and Romelu Lukaku, both black players. Many people believe that this is a racist act and the writers have been criticized by the media. Even Chris and Romelu spoke about the writer's and author’s actions. "I hope the editors involved in running this headline take responsibility and understand the power the possess through words, and the impact those words can have," quotes Chris in a tweet. The authors actually tried to defend this by saying that they didn’t mean to do that. Regardless, this is not right, and the authors should realize their mistakes.
There are many other examples of racism in soccer. For example, a player kicks the ball into the crowd and threatens to walk off the field because of all the racism towards him according to Independent. More and more racism is shot at players as the problem is spreading around. Is there a way to put a stop to racism in soccer or will it forever continue?
But why is this happening? Why are players being discriminated against for their color? Some people do this because this is how they were taught to behave or this is how their parents behaved and they think that this is right. Though people can be getting competitive in some cases.
Here is what other students think of why this happens: 6th grader Charlie says, “I feel really bad for the players that are receiving this disrespect. I don't think that they deserve this.” Shala, another 6th grader said, “When I grow up I might want to be a goalie. I don't want to be disrespected.” The last person we interviewed was a 6th grader named Joseph. He said that he really does not like the disrespect. He also added, “I don’t want to see other players experience that. It would not make me feel good.”
How would this impact what you want to do in your life?
As you may have heard some soccer players are being discriminated against because of their skin color or race which is very unfair and disrespectful. For example, you might have heard about the incident when Dani Alves got a banana thrown at him in 2014 based on BBC.com.
According to USA TODAY, police “questioned a soccer fan who was arrested after being seen on camera at Manchester City's stadium appearing to racially abuse Manchester United players by imitating a monkey.” In another example, there is an article from Italy’s frontrunning newspaper Corriere della Sera that says “Black Friday” and has two black soccer players on the cover. The cover includes soccer players Chris Smalling and Romelu Lukaku, both black players. Many people believe that this is a racist act and the writers have been criticized by the media. Even Chris and Romelu spoke about the writer's and author’s actions. "I hope the editors involved in running this headline take responsibility and understand the power the possess through words, and the impact those words can have," quotes Chris in a tweet. The authors actually tried to defend this by saying that they didn’t mean to do that. Regardless, this is not right, and the authors should realize their mistakes.
There are many other examples of racism in soccer. For example, a player kicks the ball into the crowd and threatens to walk off the field because of all the racism towards him according to Independent. More and more racism is shot at players as the problem is spreading around. Is there a way to put a stop to racism in soccer or will it forever continue?
But why is this happening? Why are players being discriminated against for their color? Some people do this because this is how they were taught to behave or this is how their parents behaved and they think that this is right. Though people can be getting competitive in some cases.
Here is what other students think of why this happens: 6th grader Charlie says, “I feel really bad for the players that are receiving this disrespect. I don't think that they deserve this.” Shala, another 6th grader said, “When I grow up I might want to be a goalie. I don't want to be disrespected.” The last person we interviewed was a 6th grader named Joseph. He said that he really does not like the disrespect. He also added, “I don’t want to see other players experience that. It would not make me feel good.”
How would this impact what you want to do in your life?
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