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A RSL player is speaking up on a worldwide issue — racism in soccer

December 23, 2018

Nedum Onuoha was in studio to analyze a duel between two of the world’s most-recognizable clubs, but once again, racist taunts spilled from the stands onto the field, making soccer become secondary. Now a center back for Real Salt Lake, who does some commentary work for BBC Sport in the offseason, Onuoha immediately noticed the body language between the player and fans during this exchange and he assumed the worst. His intuition proved right. The taunts from a small group of Chelsea fans at Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge stadium in early December were targeted toward a budding young star of the sport, Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling. Onuoha grew up in Manchester. It’s where his family relocated from Nigeria when he was 5, where his family’s car windows would get smashed in not at-random, where he’d eventually endure his first of many bouts with systemic racism. So when he saw the interaction between Sterling and the Chelsea fans, Onuoha figured that invisible line wasn’t just crossed, it was trampled over yet again. What ensued was typical: the clubs investigate, police investigate, a conclusion is reached, there is usually some type of formal punishment or bans, and fans await the next whistle to…

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