Russian Footballers Union Condemns Racist Fan Abuse Against New Player

A Russian footballers union has slammed followers of a Moscow club for racist misuse directed against a freshly signed gamer of African descent.

Football club Torpedo Moscow, which has often dealt with permissions in the past for its followers’ racist behavior, authorized Russian-Congolese defender Erving Botaka-Yoboma over the weekend. In 2015, the group was penalized with a stadium restriction after its fans made animal noises towards an opposing team’s gamer.

An unofficial group of the Torpedo supporters, the Zapad-5 Ultras, sparked debate after creating a message on the Vkontakte social media network saying that «there may be black in our team’s shades, yet there is only white in our advocates’ rankings.»

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Alexander Zotov, who heads the All-Russian Union of Footballers, called the commenters «a team of pinheads» and said the recent World Cup had actually established a much better example of Russian attitudes towards race in football.

«There have actually been modifications in mindset after the World Cup, but a group of morons still stays,» he was priced quote as stating by the Sport24.ru web site Wednesday.

«People with a restricted worldview exist in any type of nation. We saw exactly how open our culture as well as individuals were throughout the competition,» Zotov claimed.

Torpedo’s proprietor Roman Avdeyev protected Botaka-Yoboma’s finalizing, promoting the 19-year-old’s local origins and also upbringing at Torpedo’s young people club.

«There is no ‘skin color’ in our standards. We’ve never ever observed it and will never see it,» Avdeyev was priced quote as stating by the Sportfm.ru web site previously on Wednesday.

The Zapad-5 group wrote an article claiming they were versus Botaka-Yoboma’s signing since the gamer had earlier left Torpedo’s young people academy for «our enemy club— Lokomotiv Moscow,» though the questionable «only white» article continued to be on their social media page.

A meet-and-greet in between Torpedo Moscow players and followers is arranged in southerly Moscow on Thursday.

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