MADRID: A leading Spanish referee has hit out at the failure of the country’s football authorities to deal with racist abuse and pledged his support to black players who walked off the pitch in protest.
“Those people who should be facing up to this problem are not doing so and it is a big problem,” Primera Liga referee Eduardo Iturralde Gonzalez was quoted as saying in Spanish sports daily Marca on Wednesday.
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