African American Soccer Star Serenated By Monkey Chants, Dutch League Apologizes

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Den Bosch apologizes to Jozy Altidore for racist chants - ESPN FC

Den Bosch apologizes to Jozy Altidore
January 30, 2013

Referee takes players off in Dutch Cup game after racist chanting
A Dutch Cup game between second-tier Den Bosch and top flight AZ Alkmaar was halted in the second half on Tuesday, after the referee took the players from the field because of racist chanting seemingly aimed at AZ's American striker Jozy Altidore.Tags: Az Alkmaar, Jozy Altidore

Den Bosch apologized to Jozy Altidore after a section of the fans racially abused the AZ Alkmaar striker in Tuesday's KNVB Beker match, and promised to catch and punish those responsible.

The American was subjected to monkey chants in the first half of the match which AZ went on to win 5-0.

The game was stopped by referee Reinold Wiedemeijer, but Altidore himself asked for it to be continued and he scored with a penalty. He has won praise for his calm response to the situation.

Den Bosch issued a statement on their official website branding those fans who abused him "hooligans" and saying they had "ruined the week-long preparation by the club, supporters and volunteers" to get the game on despite the bad weather.

They said the club was "upset and disappointed" at the abuse which left "scars" on the club.

Den Bosch director Peter Bijvelds, who had addressed the crowd at half-time with an appeal for the abuse to stop, said: "FC Den Bosch will, aided by all those people who do good for their club, do everything in their power in the coming period to bring the perpetrators to justice.

"They do not belong in De Vliert (the Den Bosch stadium) and will have the most severe sanctions imposed on them."

Den Bosch fans also caused trouble in the second half, with the match halted again when snowballs were thrown at an official.

Altidore said after the match that he felt it was right to continue playing and not to respond to the insults.

He said: "I feel like I have an obligation as a football player, to my club, to my family, to not react to things like this and to show that the club stands better than that, that I was raised better than to respond to such ridiculous behavior.

"It's a bit disappointing. You would hope that we as humanity we can grow from these kind of times but at the end of the day, it's still alive, racism.

"All we can do is try to educate ourselves, and try to raise young kids to be better than that."

 

[yseJ]

this shyt happens in europe all the time...

 

[MAKAVELI25]

this shyt happens in europe all the time...

Exactly, there was a thread in the Locker Room a couple of months back where posters were trying to say that foreigners around the world aren't as racist as we think. nikkaz can keep on thinking we're all in this together and it's a colorblind zone, Those of us who actually pay attention know whats going on

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

Cacs gon cac

 

[Real]

Cacs gonna cac.

 

[Snitchin Splatter]

his response

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3eFDzj2KHA[/ame]

 

[DStyles]

The sad thing is that Jozy Altidore barely saw any playing time while at Villareal...

























Why you may ask? Because the manager(coach) was racist.

 

[OGmittee]

smh

saw this on the bottom line on espn when i was watching the USA tie Canada yesterday

but this seems to be a problem in europe...open blatant racism by masses of ppl..
theres racism in the US but it just not so public and vulgar i guess

 

[OGmittee]

his response

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3eFDzj2KHA

proving hes better than all those ppl is the best way to go about it. hes a better man than all those ppl who chanted at him

edit: hes a better man than some of the posters in this thread too

 

[gho3st]

he should have unprotected sex with a gang of Dutch women and bust in all of them

 

[chineebai]

he's american? sounds british but good response

 

[Jamal514]

No shock. Euros gonna Euro.

 

[yoyoyo1]

you c*nts dont give a fukk about soccer but you know, anything to bring up race.. all of a sudden this gets 10 comments

how many of you even know who the fukk jozy is

 

[MoneyTron]

Did the same shyt to Lewis Hamilton. fukk em.

 

[Montez]

The sad thing is that Jozy Altidore barely saw any playing time while at Villareal...
























Why you may ask? Because the manager(coach) was racist.

Coach wasn't racist, he was real young at the time.

Then the coach went to Real Madrid.