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Sunday, January 6, 2013
Little Tiger fans Talking Big against The Italian Giants
In a A.C Milan exhibition match against Serie B team Pro Patria (Little Tigers) the underdog fans were yelling chants that weren't exactly for their team. Fans in Pro Patrica's side of the stands. The chants were insults. As you might have seen in many papers...the fans were being racist. Abusing A.C. Milan players Kevin PrinceBoateng, Urby Emanuelson, Sulley Muntari, and M'Baye Niang. But the racist chants weren't what stood out of this incident from all the other soccer racism happenings. After a long fight between biggest racist target K. P. Boateng and the fans, Boateng went back to his coach and fellow players and talked. Finally, Massimiliano Allegri(A.C. Milan head coach stopped talking and A.C. Milan players, head coach, manager, etc. walked off the field and out of the stadium. Some people say this is the most significant soccer racism conflict, more than John Terry against QPR, and Liverpool fan against Danny Welbeck. FIFA, UEFA and many other organizations believe it was a protest for the refs to temporarily stop games to control or expel racist fans from the stadium. Shame these things happen, tweeted Kevin Prince Boateng(yes he uses Twitter), after the game. Personally, I believe walking off the field(protesting more against soccer racism was what A.C. Milan should've done being the first team with enough courage to walk of the field after a racist incident. But what do you think? Was it right that A.C. Milan players walked off the field in the exhibition match against Pro Patrica? Leave a comment.
Kevin Prince Boateng leads walk off the field in an exhibition match.
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I think you're right--it took a lot of courage for them to walk off, and it made a strong statement. I'm not sure whether it would be effective if teams kept doing it. but it seems that the players are thinking seriously about how to fix this.
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