After two Sudanese refugees who play for Deinster SV in Germany were targets of racial abuse, the team decided to speak out, digitally altering the team photo so the players appeared to be in blackface and posting it on Facebook.
The Facebook post read (translation via Goal.com):
Here at The18, we love all things Chicharito. Coming back from a successful international break where Mexico progressed to the final round of CONCACAF World Cup qualifying, he continued his Bundesliga success with his 15th goal of the season, a beautiful curling effort that put Bayer Leverkusen up 2 - 0.
With only a handful of games remaining across the top divisions in England, Spain, Germany and Italy, clear title favorites are beginning to emerge while pretenders are falling by the wayside. With the finest of margins separating this season’s elite, predicting the title winners in Europe’s top four leagues remains a tricky process.
Nowadays Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo dominate every single individual trophy there is, so much so that any other player has a very hard time competing with them, and rarely robs them of praise.
Only outstanding performances by Luis Suarez and Neymar, Messi’s mates at Barcelona, and Zlatan Ibrahimovic have managed to recently steal some limelight.
German international Max Kruse made headlines this week after it had publicly emerged that he’d left over $85,600 in poker winnings in the backseat of a taxicab. Not only has that money not been returned to Kruse, but he was subsequently fined a further $28,500 by Wolfsburg for his conduct.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has a rare combination of ability and speed, and now it seems he may bring this combination to Real Madrid. In a recent interview with beIN Sports, we learn Aubameyang promised his grandfather that he would play for Los Blancos one day.
The game between Dortmund and Mainz on Sunday was overshadowed by the tragic death of a Dortmund fan who suffered a heart attack in the stadium. After news of the tragedy started to break around the stadium, the game took a backseat as both players and fans alike were visibly shaken by the event. The usually boisterous atmosphere of the Westfalenstadion was eerily quiet as everyone paid their silent respects to the fan who lost his life.
As the dust settled on a thoroughly entertaining 0-0 draw between Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, it was evident that the two most memorable moments of the match involved Munich’s young starlet Joshua Kimmich. A 21-year-old who was serving as a makeshift defender in the most important league match of the season, Kimmich hardly put a foot wrong.
English tabloid "The Mirror" recently published an article that described what has happened since Eden Hazard last scored a Premier League goal. Hazard hasn't scored since May 3, 2015, during which time Barcelona have won five trophies and Cristiano Ronaldo has scored 42 goals. But this article isn't about Eden Hazard. It's about an Andre Schurrle hat trick.
As the great Ronaldinho once said, football is about joy. From a very young age, we’re made well aware of this fact by the strikingly jubilant spectacle we see unfolding in front of us. The Bundesliga’s YouTube channel has effectively captured this happiness with their “Top 10 Acrobatic Goal Celebrations” of all-time.