GERMANY – Players from a German football club have digitally altered their squad photo to make them appear to ‘black up’ as a show of solidarity to two team-mates who were racially abused.

Deinster SV, who play in the Kreisliga and are located in the Lower Saxony region, posted the picture on their official Facebook page in a demonstration against those who were accused of racially abusing two of their players, both of whom are Sudanese refugees. The caption alongside the picture read: “Violence against refugees is pathetic. Emad and Amar, you are one of us just like everyone else and we’re happy you are with us. Deinster head coach, Soenke Kreibich, claimed that the two players were verbally and physically abused during an Easter fete in the town centre, in which Emad was pushed to the ground and beaten. “We wanted to make a stand, amongst ourselves but also to the public,” Kreibich told Jetzt website.(The Independent UK)…[+]