High profile racist incidents in 2019 brought the game into disrepute.
Belgium policemen with dogs face Italian fans, on May 29, 1985 in Heysel stadium in Brussels, as violence has broken out one hour before the European Champion Clubs final between Britain's Liverpool and Italy's Juventus of Turin, killing 39 fans and injuring more than 600.
"Simply put, acknowledging that racism in football exists is certainly not enough to either support football players or equip them with the necessary tools that would enable them to make a difference," Kassimeris said.Piara Power, executive director of Football Against Racism in Europe, an anti-racism umbrella group that includes supporters' groups and NGOs, told ABC News that the Italian example was particularly bad although some problems are common across the continent.
"People are now saying things that perhaps even five years ago they would have hesitated to say in a public space," he told ABC News."Across Eastern Europe you-- where populist governments have a far-right agenda. They are often using language of intolerance, scapegoating minority communities. A lot of this is spilling over into football."
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