Liverpool have confirmed their Beneath-18s walked off the pitch at a youth match in Germany after certainly one of their gamers suffered alleged racist abuse in consecutive days.
The younger Reds, managed by former midfielder Marc Bridge-Wilkinson, had been taking part in a match involving Hoffenheim and Eintracht Frankfurt.
On Friday, a Liverpool participant mentioned he was referred to as the N-word – a declare that was denied by Hoffenheim who as a substitute advised the German slang time period ‘digga’ was used, which means ‘bro’.
Regardless of match organisers promising the time period can be tolerated transferring ahead, the identical participant alleged the phrase was used once more when taking part in towards Frankfurt on Saturday – prompting Liverpool to go away the sector for the second day in a row.
“Liverpool can verify {that a} member of our under-18s crew reported he was racially abused by an opponent whereas taking part in within the Bundesliga Cup youth match at Schwabisch Corridor in Germany on Friday,” a membership assertion learn.
“The participant instantly alerted the match official, his team-mates, and our teaching workers. Consequently, LFC’s administration crew determined to cease the sport and go away the pitch collectively.
“In an additional incident, the identical participant was the goal of abuse throughout a fixture within the match right now. Once more, the participant alerted his team-mates and training workers and our administration crew opted to go away the pitch as soon as extra.
“We’re happy with our participant for his immediate actions in reporting the incident and the maturity of his response. He and any of his team-mates affected are being supported by the academy safeguarding crew. The membership calls upon our opponents and the match organisers to conduct an pressing and thorough investigation into the incident.”
Frankfurt responded in a similar way to Hoffenheim, telling German publication BILD “we are able to rule out racism” and that it was the incident was nothing greater than a “language subject”.
