This one goes out to H3dgehog, He is obviously not a fan of the Dutch team ;)


(CNN) -- The captain of the Dutch national team says
his players were subjected to racial abuse at a training session in the
Polish city of Krakow this week, just days before the Euro 2012
football tournament was due to begin in Poland and Ukraine.
Several hundred people
reportedly targeted black members of the squad with "monkey chants"
during an open session Wednesday at the Stadion Miejski, the home of
Wisla Krakow.
"It is a real disgrace especially after getting back from Auschwitz [the Dutch squad had
visited the concentration camp on Wednesday] that you are confronted
with this," Mark Van Bommel, the Dutch captain, told a press conference
late Thursday.
"We will take it up with UEFA and if it happens at a match we will talk to the referee and ask him to take us off the field."


Euro 2012 hosts hit back at racism accusations


When questioned over the
incident by Dutch journalists who claimed they did not hear the abuse,
Van Bommel replied: "You need to open your ears. If you did hear it, and
don't want to hear it, that is even worse," according to ESPN.
The buildup to the football showpiece, which kicks off in Warsaw on Friday, has been marred
by a host of reports highlighting incidents of racial violence in the
Eastern European nations.
The families of two of
England's black players, Arsenal's Alex-Oxlade Chamberlain and Theo
Walcott, will not be traveling to Ukraine and Poland, while Italy and
Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli says he will walk off the pitch
if he is targeted by racists.
The England team is scheduled to hold a "ticketed" session for around 3,500 fans at the same stadium in Krakow on Friday.


UEFA president Michel
Platini says players must not take matters into their own hands, and
that any player that walks off the pitch will be cautioned.
Referees will deal with racists


"It is a referee's job
to stop the match and he is to do so if there are any problems of this
kind. I count on the fans from Western and Eastern Europe to come to
participate in a great football feast. If I am here as a UEFA chairman
and you all are here it is because we want this to be a football feast,
not a problem," he told reporters Thursday.
A recent documentary
from the BBC featured right-wing supporters from both Poland and Ukraine
displaying racist and anti-Semitic attitudes. The "Panorama" episode
broadcast footage filmed at matches in both countries that purported to
show fans displaying Nazi salutes in the stands and aiming monkey chants
at black players. This prompted former England footballer Sol Campbell
to warn fans not to travel to either country.

If you did hear it, and don't want to hear it, that is even worse.
Dutch skipper Mark Van Bommel

However, officials from
the co-hosts hit out at the program. Marcin Bosacki, a Polish Foreign
Ministry spokesman, told CNN it was "cheap journalism," while Volodymyr
Khandogiy, Ukraine's ambassador to Britain, said it was "unbalanced and
biased reporting about the situation in Ukraine."
But Piara Power,
executive director of the Football Against Racism in Europe
organization, said there was still plenty of work to be done in both
countries.
"I think we know the
situation in domestic football in both Poland and Ukraine and I'm afraid
the documentary hit the nail on the head -- it's a very bad situation,"
he said.
"Nevertheless there is
some good work going at grass roots level to make sure that Euro 2012
inside stadiums does not resemble the sort of scenes we saw in the
documentary."Source:


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