Sassuolo Fined €30,000 For Racial Abuse

The newly promoted Italian football club, Sassuolo has been fined the sum of €30,000 for their fans racial chants and shouts of abuse against the AC Milan player, Kevin Constant, during a friendly match on the 23rd of last month.

The punishment was handed down to the club by the Lega Serie A, the statement following this says, "A €30,000 fine and a warning for Sassuolo for having supporters direct shouts and chants of racial discriminination at an opposition player in the 32nd minute of the game.

The statement went on to mention that Kevin Constant, himself was also fined for kicking the ball towards a group of Sassuolo fans who abused him, before he asked to be substituted and walked off the pitch.It claimed that the player disrupted the game for about two minutes.

 

"A €3,000 fine for Kevin Constant, who kicked a ball towards a group of opposition fans who insulted him with shouts and chants of racial discrimination, before asking to be substituted and walking off the field of play, disrupting the game for around two minutes."

The incident involving the Guinean international occured at the Reggio Emilia's Stadio del tricolore. AC Milan condemned the racial abuse but also said that Constant should not have left the field. It says that it was referee's decision as to what to do about the incident.

Six months ago the AC Milan and Ghanian international, Kevin-Prince Boateng suffered racist abuse in a friendly match with a division four team -Pro Patria. In that incident Boateng kicked the ball away and left the pitch and his team-mates followed him out of the field.

I don't think it was fair that Kevin Constant was also fined for leaving the field. It is a terrible thing to come to play football in a match, but end up being racial abused by those you don't even know. The primitive people doing these are either uneducated and afraid or they are purely doing it to disrupt the rythem and concentration of the black players against their team.

The players who are racially abused, are affected emotionally by the abuse because they are human beings. So it is quite understandable when a victim of such abuse decides to walk off the field.

There are racism everywhere you go in the human society,
but it must not have place in sports. The action taken recently by FIFA in making a new law that if any team or their fans are found to be involved in racism, the club may be punished by losing of the match or deductions of points or even relegation to the lower division etc. This is a good way to go about it, but we will see whether the fooball body will implement the new rules or not.