Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has said that he believes it would be a mistake to boycott the 2018 World Cup finals in Russia as a protest against racial abuse suffered by black players in the country.
According to Sport24, while Mourinho, whose Chelsea side face City at Stamford Bridge in the Premier League on Sunday, has sympathy for Toure, he said a boycott would be counter-productive.
He said that he respected Toure's opinion but disagreed because many races made the history of football equally, and the black players had made a fantastic contribution to what football was.
Meanwhile Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger also said that, with CSKA denying Toure had been racially abused and European governing body UEFA investigating the incident, it was too soon to be discussing a boycott, according to the report.
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