Vincent Kompany calls for more diversity in football to battle racism

Gabriele Marcotti and Julien Laurens discuss the abysmal racism discipline from the Premier League at Tottenham. Tottenham's Jan Vertonghen calls for a united anti-racism stance after Chelsea's Antonio Rudiger was abused. Shaka Hislop believes football clubs have a responsibility to help eliminate racist incidents in stadiums. Craig Burley urges the Premier League to respond after Chelsea's win at Spurs was marred by racism. Gab Marcotti doesn't hold back when looking at how Verona handled racist chants directed at Mario Balotelli. Throughout a career spanning more than 15 years, former Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany has experienced racism more than once. The son of a black father and a white mother, Kompany grew up in a district of Brussels populated with a large majority of immigrants, In his youth he used to react with anger to the monkey chants and racist abuse that are regularly aimed at black players in soccer stadiums. Now at the twilight of his career, Kompany is taking a different approach, convinced that...

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