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Five hundred England "soccer supporters" have been detained in Stuttgart in the two days leading up to their side’s second-round match with Ecuador for mostly drunken and aggressive behaviour, police said today.
Riot police intervened, with some on horses, to separate the two sets of groups and held 378 England hooligans (and five to 10 German […]

Germany opened the 2006 FIFA World Cup™ finals with a 4-2 win over Group A rivals Costa Rica in Munich on Friday, 9 June 2006. An exciting Opening Match produced three goals inside the first 17 minutes as Philipp Lahm fired Germany in front on six minutes, Paulo Wanchope drew the Ticos level six minutes […]

The European Summit is the fifth in a series of regional youth leadership events. Previous summits have taken place in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean. These will culminate in the first ever United Nations Global Youth Leadership Summit at the United Nations in New York on 30 October - […]

UEFA’s partner in the campaign to eliminate racism from football, the Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE) network, and world football’s governing body FIFA are undertaking a series of joint measures to tackle racism at the FIFA World Cup finals in Germany.

The initiative between FARE, FIFA, and the World Cup Local Organising Committee, is focusing […]

02.07.2006 - 08.07.2006  /  Berlin-Kreuzberg, Germany
The World Kicks in Kreuzberg: streetfootballworld festival 06  /  Social Event

Event theme : streetfootballworld festival 06

Berlin (Norbert from fussballwmblog.de). Our 28-year-old Superstar Miroslav Klose (SV Werder Bremen) scored today twice (two goals in the fourth and 44th minute) to help Germany (off to its best World Cup start in 36 years) to a 3-0 win over Ecuador and first place in Group A of the World Cup. "Miro", the german […]

Germany’s constitutional court has ruled that neo-Nazis may hold a demonstration planned for today in Gelsenkirchen, one of the 12 cities hosting the World Cup.
The court overruled an earlier ban by a lower court on the march by members of the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD) in the western city. A state court in North-Rhine […]

An important article of the "Jewish Times":
( . . . ) Germany sees the games, which conclude July 9, as a chance to prove to 3 million visitors that it can host a major event without incident. But in order to do so it must tame the racism that is a part of soccer culture […]

German police and a German court on Thursday banned marches planned by far-right extremists (National Democratic Party of Germany, NPD) for the World Cup aimed at showing support of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s policies. He has cast doubt on the Holocaust (what is illegal under German law) and called for Israel’s destruction. NPD rallies were […]

On 28 June 2006, FIFA launched a series of high profile anti-racism activities at each quarter-final of the World Cup. The initiatives include declarations by team captains to combat racism and a call on broader society to support this aim. The EUMC very much welcomes these statements of intent and joins the call to broader […]

When Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! interviewed Dave Zirin - who writes the weekly column "Edge of Sports" and is a regular contributor to The Nation and author of the book "What’s My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States" - she asked about racism at the world cup.
Zirin confirmed that racism has […]

Thousands took to the streets in the German city of Gelsenkirchen, a World Cup venue, on Saturday to protest against a demonstration by the far-right NPD party. A day after the opening of the World Cup, a flurry of German politicians and celebrities joined thousands of citizens and activists to send a strong message against […]

We’ll blog about "football against racism", speaking with federal chairmen of youth initiatives against right wing violence and racism, for vlogs and blogs against hate speech. We’ll blog about german supporters who -over and over again- are asked to help showing racism the red card; professionals in the fight against right wing extremism.
Good advice […]