Race was a simmering issue in the European Championships this past month with some teams choosing to adopt the practice of taking the knee ahead of matches to send out a message of racial solidarity and others not. But the pitch is not the hotbed of racism in the European footballing industry. That’s changed over the past 25 years with footballers from West and North Africa, and the Caribbean to South Korea, Turkey and even Bangladesh increasingly taking to the field in the colours of storied clubs or national teams. You only have to look at the French, Belgian, English,
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