How Football Need To Help Fight Racism

Borussia Dortmund the famous German club shows us how football needs to fight racism and extremism.

Back in 2008 the football club offered supporters educational trips to Dachau, which was the first of the Nazi concentration camps opened in 1933.

In 2011 with the help of supporter liaison officers the club organised trips to Auschwitz, where over one million Jewish people were killed during the Second World War.

Club donated €1 million to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Israel.

But in a week that saw the Tottenham player Danny Rose say he “can’t wait to see the back of football” because of his frustration about the lack of action against racism.

It surely must come to football clubs to lead the fight against far-right extremism by offering to educate fans on all aspects of racism.

The German club Borussia Dortmund has been leading the way, the club with one of the largest fan bases over the world including 80,000 fans attending each home game shows us now how to use education to fight racism and anti-Semitism.

How They Fought Racism In The Past

By the early 2000s, racist chanting was actively rooted out by the fans themselves. They alienated the hooligan movement itself and pushed them from the mainstream.

UK Based Clubs Follow Their Lead

Chelsea have revealed new plans where racist fans will be sent on educational trips to Auschwitz instead of facing a banhttps://t.co/ARStGLBEIp

— talkSPORT (@talkSPORT) 11 October 2018