A free kick hit the 1st FSV Mainz 05 to the next cup round. The scorer is then violently insulted in a social network. His club makes another racism incident public.
Bad hostility after beautiful winning goal: midfielder Nadiem Amiri from FSV Mainz 05 after the DFB Cup game in the first round against Dynamo Dresden (1-0) On his Instagram side, insults against himself made public. His team -mate Arnaud Nordin was also racist.
In his story, the Amiri shared a photo of a private message in which a user insulted both Amiri himself and his mother with the worst, also with xenophobic language. “No more words for so people,” Amiri wrote about the photo. Previously, Amiri had become a match winner against the second division Dresden with a remarkable free kick goal.
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Mainz 05 clearly takes a position
The association stood behind Amiri and attacker Nordin, who was also racistically insulted online in the course of the game. Both contributions shared the Mainz via Instagram and showed the user names of the perpetrators. “Together with our boys, we are legal action against these people,” the club announced under the photo.
Several incidents on Cup weekend
Amiri’s example was not the first case of discriminatory insults on the cup weekend. Both the Schalke Christopher Antwi-Adjei at the away game in Leipzig and A substitute player of the 1st FC Kaiserslautern (in Potsdam) had been racistically insulted during their games. FIFA boss Gianni Infantino took note of the two incidents and, as a consequence, made the German Football Association (DFB) under observation.
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