The spectator who racially abused guest striker Terrence Boyd in the game against 1. FC Kaiserslautern has been identified. The perpetrator reported to the second division soccer team and confessed to the crime. He now faces a stadium ban.
Hansa’s CEO Robert Marien confirmed this to NDR on Monday afternoon. As announced, the club will take appropriate action and initiate stadium ban proceedings. Boyd had scored both goals in FCK’s 2-0 win in Rostock, after the second goal he was loudly insulted by a person from the Hansa block with the words “Fucking bastard”, as TV pictures showed.
Contrary to initial external assumptions, the insult did not come from one of the three “capos” in the south stand, but from a fan right next to one of the “lead singer” podiums.
Marien: Apologies to Boyd, meeting with fans
“FC Hansa Rostock regrets this incident and has already apologized to Terrence Boyd personally on the phone and to 1. FC Kaiserslautern in writing,” Hansa said on Sunday. “Verbal attacking and personally insulting an opposing player is not only disrespectful and unacceptable, but also unworthy of our club,” it said.
“It’s just stupid, because a statement like that tends to push the club into a corner where it doesn’t belong.”
— Hansa Rostock’s club manager Robert Marien
Marien wants to meet several fan representatives tonight to work through the case. Hansa CEO Boyd had already called on Saturday and asked the striker for an apology. The former US international, who was born in Bremen, immediately thanked Twitter for this and explained that the matter was over for him.
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NDR Television | North Magazine | 10/24/2022 | 19:30 o’clock
