{"id":19158,"date":"2012-06-07T12:16:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T09:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=19158"},"modified":"2024-02-17T13:27:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T10:27:16","slug":"michel-platini-warns-players-about-racism-revolt-euro-2012-news-19158","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/michel-platini-warns-players-about-racism-revolt-euro-2012-news-19158\/","title":{"rendered":"Michel Platini Warns Players About Racism Revolt \/ EURO 2012 News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Players have been warned that they will be yellow-carded for walking off the pitch if they are racially abused at the European Championships.<\/h1>\n

UEFA president Michel Platini confirmed the rule preventing players from leaving the field without the referee\u2019s permission would stand \u2013 even if they are the victims of racism from the stands in Poland and Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Mario Balotelli last week threatened to walk off if he suffered racist abuse during Italy\u2019s Euro 2012 games, but Platini said the Manchester City striker would be punished for doing so unless the officials stopped the game.<\/p>\n

Platini tells players to let referees handle racism at Euro 2012<\/h2>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a yellow card,\u201d said Platini at the tournament\u2019s kick-off press conference in Warsaw, which was dominated by the issue of racism.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019d certainly support the referee if he decided to stop the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a player, Mr Balotelli, who\u2019s in charge of refereeing. It\u2019s the referee who takes these decisions.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, the referee has been given advice and he can stop the game if there are problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will stop the game if there are problems because I think racism is the worst of this.\u201d<\/p>\n

UEFA\u2019s chief refereeing officer, Pierluigi Collina, insisted each of the qualified teams had been made aware of the process they should follow if one of their players were abused.<\/p>\n

\u201cThings are clear,\u201d he said, confirming officials had also been fully briefed.<\/p>\n

\u201cReferees have a protocol so they know what they have to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe match director, who is responsible for each match, knows what has to be done on the field of play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Problems with racist and anti-semitic abuse at football matches in Poland and Ukraine were highlighted in last week\u2019s BBC Panorama programme.<\/p>\n

The families of England stars Theo Walcott and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain have chosen not to attend the tournament over fears for their safety, while former international Sol Campbell warned black fans who do travel that they risk \u201ccoming back in a coffin\u201d.<\/p>\n

Platini, who became increasingly irritated about the line of questioning, refused to be drawn on Campbell\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cWhat would you like me to say? How would you want me to answer this?<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone can do what they like.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former France great added: \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s any more racism in Poland and Ukraine than in France or anywhere else, or even in England.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a footballing problem. It\u2019s a problem for society.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not in charge of what goes on in football stadiums. It\u2019s the states that need to take charge of this.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere have been problems with violence in the 1970s in England.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey made great strides actually to change the situation and we need to do work in the field of racism and we need to stop this from happening.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow can you say outside the stadium, \u2018He\u2019s a racist, he can\u2019t come in, he\u2019s not a racist, he can come in\u2019? You can\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Piara Powar, the executive director of Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE), was confident UEFA would not hesitate to expel teams from the tournament if necessary.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us, the UEFA system is three strikes and you\u2019re out,\u201d he said. \u201cFine and then another fine and then a ban or forcing teams to play behind closed doors.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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