Florence: Italy must adopt a zero tolerance policy towards racism in football if they are to eradicate the problem from the sport, national team coach Cesare Prandelli said on Monday. A number of Italian clubs have been punished for racist incidents recently.
"It is a serious problem, a problem that is not only the national team's or Milan's but Italian football's," Prandelli said. "If we want to be credible on a European and worldwide level, we can't tolerate anything anymore. It starts with a 'boo' and then you don't know where it will go. It is a long path, but you have to make it clear to everyone how they have to behave."
AC Milan forward Mario Balotelli has said he will walk off the field the next time he is racially abused, following the example of strike partner Kevin-Prince Boateng, who led his team-mates off the pitch when he was racially abused during an exhibition game against an Italian fourth-tier side in January.
"It's never happened in the national team but we would be the first to go onto the pitch and embrace him so he wouldn't go off," Prandelli said....
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09:15 AM, May 21, 2013
London: One of Britain's prominent Sikh politicians, Parmjit Dhanda, has told a probe panel inquiring into racism during elections that a pig's severed head was left outside his home. The former Labour MP made the revelation to an all-party inquiry into electoral conduct in the UK, which is recording racist abuse suffered during election campaigns in the country. Dhanda's children found the pig's head on the front drive while they...
06:42 PM, May 19, 2013
Zurich: Referees are on the front line in the fight against racism but cannot always be expected to be aware of what is going on off the field, English referee Howard Webb said on Monday. Webb took part in the first meeting of FIFA's anti-racism task force and said that one suggestion was the use of off-pitch officials to help referees identify serious incidents. "We are very much in the...
11:47 PM, May 06, 2013
Rome: Juventus have been fined 30,000 euro because a section of their fans were heard chanting racist abuse during Sunday's match against AC Milan. Some of the Bianconeri supporters were seen directing racial chants at AC Milan footballer Kevin-Prince Boateng during the Serie A clash, reports Xinhua. It is not the first time the midfielder has been subjected to such abuse this season. Earlier in the campaign during a friendly...
02:40 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said that his government will not allow racism or religious extremism in the country and advised the Buddhist majority community to protect the rights of others. "This is a democratic country, non-Buddhists have equal rights and freedoms. While we safeguard the rights of Buddhists, it is the responsibility of the Buddhists to be exemplary and protect the rights of others," he told a religious...
12:22 PM, Mar 31, 2013
The governing body reminded referees that they had been authorisied 4 years ago to stop matches in case of racism incidents. ...
05:54 PM, Mar 28, 2013
UEFA said the Serie A club was under investigation for "racist behaviour of supporters, insufficient organisation and the throwing of missiles and/or fireworks". ...
10:55 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Two West Ham fans have been arrested after coins were thrown toward Frank Lampard as he celebrated with substitute John Terry after scoring Chelsea's opening goal in a 2-0 win. ...
07:41 PM, Mar 18, 2013
A 56-year-old India-born football fan was beaten up badly by seven men and punched in the face and head more than 18 times on a packed tram in UK, as 200 onlookers did nothing to save him from the racist attackers. ...
04:54 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Webb wanted to meet players from England's Premier League to discuss their experiences of racism in an attempt to forge new strategies to deal with the problem. ...
07:37 PM, Mar 02, 2013
Balotelli, who joined rivals AC Milan from Manchester City last month, was the target of abuse by Inter fans during their 3-1 home win over Chievo Verona. ...
07:54 PM, Feb 12, 2013
The poll in GQ's latest edition included categories like 'Sexiest Indian Chick' and 'Sexiest Pregnant Sri Lankan'. ...
04:01 PM, Jan 22, 2013
The Portuguese forward was non-committal over Milan midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng's decision to walk off the pitch over racist insults. ...
10:14 PM, Jan 07, 2013
UEFA said the Italian hosts had been charged over racist chanting by their fans, missile-throwing and also because their team arrived late. ...
08:06 PM, Jan 07, 2013
Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu on condemned as "sickening" an alleged racial attack on two young Indian women on a local bus in Australia, while denouncing the idea of racism as "contemptible" and "disgraceful". In an incident that reportedly happened on December 12, a woman of solid built who has been described as "very manly" slapped the Indian women while racially abusing them after getting off a bus in Melbourne, the...
12:34 PM, Dec 21, 2012
An Australian woman threatened two young Indian women and slapped one across the face here in a "racial attack", prompting Victoria police to launch a probe into the assault. The woman - believed to be in her 30s - racially abused the Indian passengers "throughout the journey into the city", the police said in a statement on Thursday. ...
07:00 PM, Dec 20, 2012
There has still been no action against the men and a policeman who allegedly harassed a Manipuri woman on Thursday. The theatre person had filed two FIRs, one against the bike rider who hit her car but was let off by a traffic policeman and another against a group of men and the policeman who shoved her and passed lewd and racist comments. ...
11:16 AM, Dec 08, 2012
In another case of Northeast Indians being targeted, a theatre person from Manipur alleged that she was heckled by a crowd in Bangalore, that passed lewd and racist comments and abused her. What is even more shocking is that the policeman who she turned to for help allegedly ended up shouting back and shoving her and called her a nuisance. ...
12:28 PM, Dec 07, 2012
In another case of Northeast Indians being targeted, a theatre person from Manipur alleged that she was heckled by a crowd in Bangalore, that passed lewd and racist comments and abused her. What's even more shocking is that the policeman who she turned to for help allegedly ended up shouting back and shoving her. ...
11:08 AM, Dec 07, 2012
Melbourne: Indians are now the focus of racist attacks in Australia than in the past when people from east Asian descent were the primary targets, a major social survey has found. The targets of racism in Australia have changed and the Indian community is now most often singled out rather than people of east Asian descent in the past, despite official attempts in recent years to calm anger over a...
04:09 PM, Oct 26, 2012
