Day -626. #WorldCup2018
This is old news now, if you were following this kind of news today, but it is still worth repeating because it is so shockingly amusing in a dark humour kind of way.
Fifa's new general secretary Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura announced that Fifa's Taskforce Against Racism and Discrimination has been disbanded. That's it then. Fifa has decided that they have solved the problem of racism in football. This as one of the countries with the worst records of incidents of fans' racism aimed at players prepares to host the football world, and Fifa's flagship tournament, in less than 2 years
Only this month UEFA punished Russian club Rostov, from one of the Russia 2018 host cities, for racist behaviour in a Champions League match.
Quite rightly the decision has been criticized by many within football and organizations that campaign against racism as shameful. Maybe Fifa thinks that because they hired a lady from Africa to be their secretary general that they have done their bit and the world is a better place.
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