German Soccer Fans Scream "Dirty Nigger" and "Ape" at Nigerian Soccer Player

[Mackeyite]

Player Silences German Racists With Hitler Salute

Mired in betting scandals, riven by infighting and alarmed by recent poor performances on the pitch, German soccer needs anything but more controversy in the few months remaining before it hosts the World Cup. But some recent cases of blatant racism are doing further damage to its image.

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Nigerian player Adebowale Ogungbure, of fourth division FC Sachsen Leipzig is sick of racist abuse against him at matches.
It started with a Hitler salute. Two eastern German soccer teams in the fourth division, FC Sachsen Leipzig and Hallesche FC, had just drawn 2-2 on March 25 in Halle, and the fans weren't happy.

Leipzig's Nigerian midfielder Adebowale Ogungbure was walking off the pitch when hooligans ran up to him, spat at him and called him "Dirty Nigger," "Shit Nigger" and "Ape." He ignored it and walked on. Then, when he passed the main stand and heard fans making whooping monkey noises at him, he decided he'd had enough. He put two fingers above his mouth to symbolise a Hitler moustache and stuck out his right arm in a Nazi salute to the crowd.

Given their behavior, one might think they would have appreciated the gesture and even returned it. But a Halle supporter attacked him from behind with a corner flag and another grabbed him in a stranglehold. Ogungbure pushed them away as a teammate intervened and dragged him towards the tunnel, to the safety of the changing rooms.

"I was just so angry, I didn't care. I could have been killed but I had to do something," Ogungbure told SPIEGEL ONLINE last week. "I thought to myself, what can I do to get them as angry as they have made me? Then when I lifted my arm I saw the anger in their faces and I started to laugh."

"I've faced some sort of racist abuse at about half the matches I've played," he said, but the spitting was too much on March 25. "I've never seen anyone spit at a dog or a cat in Germany -- why should I be spat at?"

The story took a grotesque turn when Ogungbure was charged with "unconstitutional behavior" for making the Hitler salute, which is illegal in Germany. The public prosecutor's office wisely dropped proceedings within 24 hours. But the incident made nationwide headlines and spurred a flurry of reports suggesting racist abuse is rife in the lower leagues where crowds are smaller and fewer police are present.

Rolf Heller, president of FC Sachsen Leipzig, played down the incident and said it was an isolated case. "This has nothing whatsoever to do with right wing extremism, it is just misguided fervor on the part of the fans," he said. Ogungbure said he informed Heller long ago about the hostility he faces. His answer: "They only want to wind you up."

FIFA toughens penalties

The case came to the attention of the governing body of world football, FIFA, which recently implemented tougher penalties for clubs whose fans engage in racist behavior. Possible sanctions now include match suspensions, the deduction of points, relegation or elimination from competitions.

The new rules were introduced in response to recent acts of racism in the top Spanish and Italian leagues but FIFA Secretary-General Urs Linsi told German newspaper Tagesspiegel last week: "We will of course also make sure that something like this is punished in Germany's fourth division as well."

So clubs had better start getting their act together, because greeting black players with ape noises and riling against foreigners is a frequent occurrence, especially, it appears, at matches involving teams from eastern Germany where unemployment is high and support for far-right parties has been strongest in recent years.

Last weekend at a lower division match between Hamburg St. Pauli and eastern club Chemnitz FC, visiting Chemnitz fans stormed Turkish-owned stores chanting "Sieg Heil" and waving imitation Nazi flags. Some shouted: "We're going to build a subway from St Pauli to Auschwitz."

Such behavior is bad enough at any time, but especially damaging now with Germany trying to project a cosmopolitan image under a World Cup slogan: "A Time to Make Friends."

Neo-Nazis plan to spoil World Cup

German officials last week admitted the far right may try to capitalize on the month-long World Cup, which starts July 9. Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said neo-Nazi groups were planning to use the tournament to raise their profile.

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German national team player Patrick Owomoyela (center) during a match between Germany and Turkey. The German home strip, red in this case, usually consists of a white shirt and black shorts.
The far-right NPD party and other neo-Nazi groups apparently want to stage a "freedom of speech" march in Gelsenkirchen, in the Ruhr Valley, and further demonstrations in Leipzig, Berlin, and Nuremberg, to show solidarity with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has openly denied the Holocaust and suggested that Israel should be "wiped off the map."

The NPD is also already actively fomenting soccer xenophobia by offering a World Cup match fixtures guide that calls for Germany to field only white-skinned players.

The list is headlined "WHITE -- not just a soccer shirt color -- for a real NATIONAL team." It has a picture of a player bearing the number 25 -- the number used by national team player Patrick Owomoyela, who has a Nigerian father.

With reporting by Eva Lodde, Mike Glindmeier, Jens Todt.

[Nesayem]

I know you are not surprised..

[CreatorsCollege]

Peace!

There are enough Afrikan teams to EXCLUDE all "others." There's even an Afrikan League of Football (Scoocer). Afrikans don't NEED yt.

PLUS, WTF is a "neo-Nazi?" There 'aint nothing "neo/new" about it!

[Uhuru Kimathi]

What really amazes me is that these pigs can't accept that we are great in fields, Its like they are running away from the reality that africans are great soccer players. and actually we are the one who are making their famous teams to be always on the top of the tables, think of Samuel Eta from Cameroon, Drogba From ivory coast, Louis Saha and all the other brathas who are real heros in europe

[Nefertiti]

This is sooooo typical of the white people whether they are saying it or thinking it They just cant accept the fact that we are better in everthing

[The phantom]

I have one thing to say about that "south africa" get this blacks are tired of how there families and ancestors were treated in the past, so mad in fact that they make a black supremicist sect in south africa. They would kidnappe whites and drive them to remote areas of south Africa only know to blacks and force them to be slaves. and if a reporter or something were to get in the way, they then would just re-encount the story about how nazi's spread vicious rumors and that this is about keeping black people down.

(Kepp in mind here that whites have spread so many rumors and lied about so many things that no one would belive them this may be they falling point)

This hasn't accualy happened, but if stuff like racism and things of that nature should happen to any one black, than this should not be far off. If anything I support it because if whites are allowed to get away with this and the government won't do anything [Also keep in mind this is an all white government in an all white COUNTRY]. If the government will tolerant such injustice and refuse to stand up, and fight for something moral. Than why should we, I mean after all Blacks are the Majority of south africa shouldn't we get privlage and have special rights for ourselves?

[Dino]

black and germany go together

[Kweku_Omowale]

Originally Posted by Uhuru Kimathi

What really amazes me is that these pigs can't accept that we are great in fields, Its like they are running away from the reality that africans are great soccer players. and actually we are the one who are making their famous teams to be always on the top of the tables, think of Samuel Eta from Cameroon, Drogba From ivory coast, Louis Saha and all the other brathas who are real heros in europe

i gotta give him,his props for his warriorship!

thats so tru and the many afrikan brazilians as well playing in europe,it raisesa red flag,for me and should raisea red flag,for dem too,@ kimathi,afrikans are betta at everything,the first afrikan player to stun europe
was EDSON ARANTES DO NASCIMENTO, also known as PELE.afrikan brazilian,he stunned the world and actually,hitler was watching the match,when we kicked british azzes, i got germans pissed off in kanada,when i passed by german fans and told dem, brazil had kicked some nazi nazz!
and right now,i am on the process to get geared up,gonna get me some machette and prepare for the worse,because the best is yet to come!

uhuru!!
ness
uhuru mimathi
and may the ancestors give this nigerian brother the power to mutitate dem germans and put their heads on platter and show dem to the afrikan gods

[Militantgsg]

This is no different than the Cracka AmeriKKKans calling Brother Barry Bonds an "ape" a "Nigger" and sending him death threats. Crackas are the same all over the world.

[Khadijah]

Originally Posted by Uhuru Kimathi

What really amazes me is that these pigs can't accept that we are great in fields, Its like they are running away from the reality that africans are great soccer players. and actually we are the one who are making their famous teams to be always on the top of the tables, think of Samuel Eta from Cameroon, Drogba From ivory coast, Louis Saha and all the other brathas who are real heros in europe

Dear brother.

These brothers you mention it are sell-outs. Saha consider himself as a French.

They are so rich and married to a white women.

Look at Thierry Henry

[The phantom]

BLACK COLONISM, somewhere in the near future blacks should plan to claim and the invade europe, it will keep them from talking.

[AzaniaSpeaks]

Greetings! ImHotep!

In all due respect, Afurakan descendants do not need to play with yts in order to participate in "world" sports! The Last Poets tried to school y'all back in the day: ". . . while you running chasing balls, the yt man cuttin off YO balls!" [paraphrased]

We play too much! We play too much! WE P-L-A-Y TOO MUCH!

That might be the reason we're being slaughtered in the longest running act of genocide known to hue-manity -- the MAAFA has not ended. . . . .

Will the revolution be televised, hmmmm will it get started if we're running after balls?????????

Power & Protection Is With You. . . . .

[WombanAuset]

Just recently a white guy yelled from the stands at an event where my 13 year old brother was playing basketball..."Yall niggers cant play basketball"

[AzaniaSpeaks]

Originally Posted by WombanAuset

Just recently a white guy yelled from the stands at an event where my 13 year old brother was playing basketball..."Yall niggers cant play basketball"

Greetings! ImHotep!

That further strengthens my point: why do we subject ourselves, our children, our families, our communities, our people to this humiliation in the name of "sports" and "achievement/glory?" It appears we are the only ones that need to be convinced of our abilities. . . . . while the destruction goes on and on and on and on. . . . .

Power & Protection Is With You . . . along with my Love!

[WombanAuset]

Originally Posted by AzaniaSpeaks

Greetings! ImHotep!

That further strengthens my point: why do we subject ourselves, our children, our families, our communities, our people to this humiliation in the name of "sports" and "achievement/glory?" It appears we are the only ones that need to be convinced of our abilities. . . . . while the destruction goes on and on and on and on. . . . .

Power & Protection Is With You . . . along with my Love!

Playing sports is a good outlet...I see nothing wrong with it.