Racism in football: A virus we have to kill

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Football is universally and deservedly known as the ‘beautiful game,’ but even the most beautiful of things have ugly defects, and football has racism. There was the Buenos Aires Resolution, which was passed by the Extraordinary Congress of FIFA during a monumental meeting in the Argentinian capital on 7th July, 2001. After more than a decade, does it look like football has done enough to eliminate this virus? Football is rife with a shocking level of “institutional discrimination.”

Figures published by the International Federation of Football history and statistics  earlier this month showed that black people or the minority, as they are known,  currently fill just under four per cent of backroom staff positions in the five top European football  Football Leagues.