Blatter wants points deductions for racial incidents


  • Football
  • Wednesday, 04 Mar 2015

Sepp Blatter, President of FIFA, arrives for the AGM of the International Football Association Board at the Culloden Hotel near Belfast February 27, 2015. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton

ASUNCION (Reuters) - Teams involved in racial incidents should suffer more severe punishment like the docking of league points, FIFA president Sepp Blatter said on Wednesday.

"The biggest problem we've had in recent days here in this continent is racism, discrimination. This is unacceptable," Blatter said.

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