Last week it was also announced that Fifa would set up a task force to tackle racism, with Vinícius Júnior taking a prominent role. “The referees have this opportunity in Fifa competitions as we have this process for stopping the game, and actions have to be taken at every level, at national level as well.” “There is no football if there is racism! So let’s stop the games,” Infantino said. Speaking at an event last week with Real Madrid’s Vinícius Júnior – who received racial abuse in a La Liga match at Valencia last month – Infantino insisted that Fifa matches should be halted if there is any discrimination. “The match was stopped by the referee in the 70th minute to protect the players from potential injuries.” categorically rejects such accusations,” it said on social media. Kuwait’s FA disputed the FAI’s description of events and said the referee stopped the match because of “roughness and tension” between the players. The match was also abandoned before full-time. In another alleged incident on Monday, the Football Association of Ireland said it would contact Fifa and Uefa over a “racist remark” made to one of its players in an under-21s game against Kuwait’s Olympic team. Qatari FA’s president, Jassim bin Rashid Al Buenain, also released a statement of support, “strongly condemning” the “unwarranted attention has received”. In the contrary, Yusuf stressed that, in fact, he himself was racially abused during the match.” “Yusuf Abdurisag Yusuf confirmed an exchange of words with an opponent – in the heat of the moment – shortly before half-time,” Yusuf stressed that no racial of discriminatory language was used or directed towards any player of the New Zealand team. Qatar’s FA released a statement of their own on Tuesday, denying the claims of racism. “I think when someone receives significant racial abuse, multiple people hear it, there’s multiple witnesses to something like that and nothing can be done then we’ve got a bigger problem and maybe it’s time we look at the rules,” he said. “We never want to see a match abandoned but some issues are bigger than football and it is important to make a stand,” NZF’s chief executive Andrew Pragnell said in a statement. Yusuf clashed with Boxall, who is of Samoan heritage, just before half-time and despite an allegation of racism against the Qatari player being reported to Austrian referee Manuel Schüttengruber at the break, no action was taken, prompting the New Zealand squad to make the collective decision to not retake the field for the second half, a decision supported by New Zealand Football (NZF). Yusuf Abdurisag Yusuf, the Qatari player accused of making the alleged racial slur towards New Zealand’s Michael Boxall, has denied using any racial or discriminatory language and claimed that he himself was racially abused.
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