Football has nothing to do with politics? No, football can never be free from politics.

Before the epidemic caused the football match to basically stop, major leagues in Europe were experiencing a season of hard struggle for racial equality. However, after George Freud, a black man in Minnesota, died because of the violent law enforcement by white police, the wave of condemnation and protest swept the whole western society, and the football world was pulled back into this political whirlpool.

Looking at the 219-2 season alone, there are many cases involving racial discrimination in world football. Last September, Cagliari fans made monkey calls from Lu Kaku, who just joined Inter Milan, but no one was punished in the end. By December, Serie A officials even tried to eradicate racial discrimination with three monkey cartoons in the headquarters building, which was really puzzling.

Last October, England swept Bulgaria 6- away in the European Cup qualifier, and the home fans at the scene repeatedly attacked the black players in the Three Lions with racist language, so the game was once interrupted. Afterwards, the president of the Bulgarian Football Association resigned, but the real perpetrators were not punished enough to make them remember.

The situation in the Premier League is also not optimistic. In last December's home game between Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea, both Blues central defender rudiger and Tottenham striker Sun Xingyu were subjected to racial discrimination by their opponents' fans, and the latter was repeatedly abused by their own fans in 219. Coincidentally, when Sun Xingyu's Korean predecessor Park Ji-sung played for Manchester United, he was often shouted "You eat dog meat in your motherland" by Red Devils fans.

Look at Germany again. Thuram Jr., Sancho, Ashraf, etc. supported the racial discrimination protests in the United States one after another after scoring goals, but they may be banned for expressing their political views on the field. How many privileged classes really hate racial discrimination in this business dominated by white people and often priced at millions or even tens of millions of euros?

For example, in 216, Colin Kaepernick, an NFL player, was dissatisfied with the unfair treatment of African-Americans and other ethnic minorities in American society. He knelt on the national anthem before the game and was subsequently terminated. In order to avoid trouble, the American Football Association directly announced in 217 that this kind of behavior on one knee was illegal and explicitly prohibited players from following suit.

On June 2nd, the American Football Association published a tweet against racial discrimination, but the comment area was full of sarcasm. It seems that the Internet really has memories.

In contrast, FIFA and UEFA deserve a lot of praise in combating racism. Although they still have a lot of work to do in this respect, the transnational and even transcontinental cooperation led by them can not be ignored.

It is unrealistic to expect to change the situation of people of color by sitting in the square and petitioning online. Besides, the popularity of these slogans often fades after shouting for a week. In this extremely unsettled year of 22, many fields have undergone a major reshuffle. Can the struggle against racism usher in a new turn?