SlagMaster
12-13-2006, 04:19 AM
By DAVID BYERS
BERLIN
A Jewish soccer team from Berlin whose players abandoned a game after facing chants of "Gas the Jews" and "Auschwitz is Back",:nopity:
have been told to replay the match at a neutral venue.
The initial match, which was played on September 26 at Altglienicke's ground in east Berlin, was abandoned when Makkabi players left the field in the 78th minute following a torrent of anti-Semitic chants from the crowd.
Both Altglienicke and referee Klaus Bruening were sanctioned by the Berliner Fussball-Verband, with Altglienicke players and coaches ordered to take part in seminars against racism. Altglienicke was instructed to play its next two matches without any fans present, replay the game with Makkabi at a neutral venue, and provide five ushers to monitor fan behavior through the end of the 2007-08 season.
Bruening was banned for life; the court said he had failed in his duty to stop the game once the chants became prominent.
Fan racism is a problem at all levels of German soccer.
Second division eastern German club Hansa Rostock had to cough up 20,000 euros after supporters shouted racist abuse at Ghana-born German national Gerald Asamoah during a German Cup match with Rostock's amateur team in September.
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BERLIN
A Jewish soccer team from Berlin whose players abandoned a game after facing chants of "Gas the Jews" and "Auschwitz is Back",:nopity:
have been told to replay the match at a neutral venue.
The initial match, which was played on September 26 at Altglienicke's ground in east Berlin, was abandoned when Makkabi players left the field in the 78th minute following a torrent of anti-Semitic chants from the crowd.
Both Altglienicke and referee Klaus Bruening were sanctioned by the Berliner Fussball-Verband, with Altglienicke players and coaches ordered to take part in seminars against racism. Altglienicke was instructed to play its next two matches without any fans present, replay the game with Makkabi at a neutral venue, and provide five ushers to monitor fan behavior through the end of the 2007-08 season.
Bruening was banned for life; the court said he had failed in his duty to stop the game once the chants became prominent.
Fan racism is a problem at all levels of German soccer.
Second division eastern German club Hansa Rostock had to cough up 20,000 euros after supporters shouted racist abuse at Ghana-born German national Gerald Asamoah during a German Cup match with Rostock's amateur team in September.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1164881879724&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull