Barca star blasts racists for setting bad example to kids

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2005

MADRID (AFP) — Barcelona's Cameroon international striker Samuel Eto'o blasted the racist fan element in the Spanish game and blamed adults who indulge in xenophobic chants of setting a bad example to impressionable children.

"The kids don't know if these monkey chants are good or bad. They just listen to their parents who are gods to them and this is what is worrying," he told the secretary general of the journalists' union in the Balearic islands, Andreu Manresa.

Racism has marred the Spanish game this season with the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) recently handing national team coach Luis Aragones a 3,000 euro (3,500 dollar) fine for making racist comments about Thierry Henry of France and Arsenal last October.

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