Soccer: Hat-trick hero Sancho wears 'Justice for George Floyd' shirt

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Soccer: Hat-trick hero Sancho wears 'Justice for George Floyd' shirt
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Borussia Dortmund players Jadon Sancho and Achraf Hakimi became the latest athletes to join a chorus of outrage over the death of a black man in Minneapolis by wearing shirts with the message 'Justice for George Floyd' in a Bundesliga match on Sunday.

Soccer Football - Bundesliga - SC Paderborn v Borussia Dortmund - Benteler Arena, Paderborn, Germany - May 31, 2020 Borussia Dortmund's Jadon Sancho celebrates scoring their second goal with a 'Justice for George Floyd' shirt, as play resumes behind closed doors following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease Lars Baron/Pool via REUTERS DFL regulations prohibit any use of photographs as image sequences and/or...

England forward Sancho, who scored the first hat-trick of his career in Dortmund’s 6-1 rout of Paderborn, and the Spanish-born Hakimi who plays international soccer for Morocco, took off their team shirts to display the message. Borussia Moenchengladbach’s Marcus Thuram knelt to honour Floyd after scoring in his team’s 4-1 home win over Union Berlin earlier on Sunday. U.S. defender Weston McKennie displayed a “Justice for George’ message on his armband in Saturday’s 1-0 home defeat by Werder Bremen.

Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was charged on Friday with murder in the death of unarmed 46-year-old Floyd after cellphone footage of the white officer kneeling on Floyd’s neck prompted a wave of protests across the United States.

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