“I think Europe likes to stick things in America’s eye, but in this case they may be waking up that this is no benign charity and it ain’t out for equality.”
Plus, racism is a much more overt problem in European soccer than in any sport in the US.
Is it really? I know a lot about pure soccer, not a lot about racism in the sport or frankly even racism in other countries.
I always consider football (real football) an important and generally harmless way to release ethnic tensions — and to get rid of them,
There’s a joke in Iran that they’d gladly love all Jews if we could lend them some of our star players.
They still regularly throw bananas on the pitch at black players.